Bug#273696: marked as done (debian-policy: define "small file")
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From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
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Subject: debian-policy: define "small file"
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Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.6.1.1
Severity: wishlist
Policy says:
Any additional documentation that comes with the package may be
installed at the discretion of the package maintainer. Text
documentation should be installed in the directory
`/usr/share/doc/<package>', where <package> is the name of the
package, and compressed with `gzip -9' unless it is small.
It would be best to define "small". As block sizes users use differ,
one can't pin down at exactly how many bytes savings will occur, so
perhaps just say: as of year 2004, "small" is defined as 4096 bytes or
less.
By the way, I would replace all the gzip -9's in the policy with gzip --best.
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Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 04:15:43 -0500
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To: jidanni@jidanni.org, 273696-done@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#273696: debian-policy: define "small file"
In-Reply-To: <E1CBmGe-0001b5-Ck@jidanni1>:Dan Jacobson's message of 11:33:36
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On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 11:33:36 +0800, Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> said:
> Package: debian-policy Version: 3.6.1.1 Severity: wishlist
> Policy says:
> Any additional documentation that comes with the package may be
> installed at the discretion of the package maintainer. Text
> documentation should be installed in the directory
> `/usr/share/doc/<package>', where <package> is the name of the
> package, and compressed with `gzip -9' unless it is small.
> It would be best to define "small". As block sizes users use differ,
> one can't pin down at exactly how many bytes savings will occur, so
> perhaps just say: as of year 2004, "small" is defined as 4096 bytes
> or less.
Umm, no. This is best left at the discretion of the
maintainer, since what is considered small may well vary with time,
and also with the size of the package itself.
> By the way, I would replace all the gzip -9's in the policy with
> gzip --best.
Why? --best and -9 are synonymous.
manoj
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