Bug#338204: 12.3: define small for compression of documentation

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 01:04:28PM -0600, Adam Heath wrote:
> package: debian-policy
> version: 3.6.2.1
> 
> 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; otherwise, there
> is no real incentive to compress documentation, as one person's "too large" is
> another person's small.
> 
> 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?

Since policy is supposed to document current practice and a lot of
package use dh_compress, I would say small is <4kB. 

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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