Bug#352641: debian-policy: clarify distribution of files needed by the HTML (section 12.4)

["Nelson A. de Oliveira" <naoliv@gmail.com>]

Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.6.2.2
Severity: wishlist

Hi!

Section 12.4 says that we must include HTML documentation if possible.
As I understand, the HTML won't be compressed. (It won't, right?)
The problem is on the files needed by the HTML. If the HTML points to a
PDF, or some txt files, they don't need to be compressed too?
Or we must patch the HTML to something like this:

Original HTML:
"You can see an example at example.txt"

Modified:
"You can see an example at the compressed file example.txt.gz"

It's not clear (at least for me) what is the correct way. If we don't
compress the files needed by the HTML or if it's necessary to compress.

Thank you very much!
Nelson

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.13-rc5-mm1
Locale: LANG=pt_BR, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to pt_BR)

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