Re: [proposal] remove the requirement to compress documentation
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 06:02:50PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > As such, I believe the requirement to compress files is an anachronism
> > that we should get rid of.
>
> I do not like removing a useful requirement in exchange for nothing.
> Debian is used on small systems where users still like to have documentation, and
> support zlib compression is almost universal.
> Every Debian stable release has higher diskspace requirement than the previous
> one already. Why make it even bigger ?
texdoc generally fails on .pdf.gz files, but I guess that application
could be fixed instead.
Julian
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