Bug#338204: 12.3: define small for compression of documentation
Adam Heath writes ("Bug#338204: 12.3: define small for compression of documentation"):
> Section 12.3 says extra documentation should be compressed if it is
> small. However, small is not defined. It would be useful if it
> was;
Nonsese. This should be interpreted in context. A document which is
small when it is shipped with mozilla-firefox might well be large when
the same file is shipped as part of base-files.
> otherwise, there is no real incentive to compress
> documentation, as one person's "too large" is another person's
> small.
Why can't we leave this up to the maintainer's judgement ?
(The comment about `incentive' is baffling. Why would a maintainer
not have an incentive to improve the package ?)
> Also, the text says compressed with "gzip -9, unless it is small." Does that
> mean I can compress with gzip -1 if it's small, or bzip, or zip?
It means you should read the document for what it is: a set of
guidelines to help people do the right thing - not a set of laws with
which to beat maintainers who disagree with you.
Ian.
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