Re: [proposal] remove the requirement to compress documentation
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 07:09:40PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 06:02:50PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > Debian is used on small systems where users still like to have documentation, and
> > support zlib compression is almost universal.
>
> I would not have any objection against a tool which would compress files
> upon installation for those users who want it. But I don't think having
> to compress files inside the .deb package buys us very much anymore.
To be a bit more specific on this: such a tool could be implemented
fairly trivially with a dpkg trigger. Just register a trigger that
triggers on any file under /usr/share/doc, and have it call gzip --best
on the files it is called with.
Would such a tool alleviate your concerns?
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