Re: Size limit for compressing files

[Julian Gilbey <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk>]

On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 10:43:23AM +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
> >From the dh_compress man page:
> 
>     By default, dh_compress compresses files that debian policy mandates
>     should be compressed, namely all files in usr/share/info, usr/share/man,
>     usr/X11R6/man, and all files in usr/share/doc that are larger than 4k in
>     size, (except the copyright file, .html files and .gif files), and all
>     changelog files.
> 
> Where this 4k size limit is referred in the Policy manual?

Policy says compress it "unless it is small".  4k is an arbitrary
choice AFAIK.

   Julian

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