Bug#372715: tetex-base: texdoctk database should honour compressed status of document

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Lutz Lehmann <llehmann@mathematik.hu-berlin.de> wrote:

> As a sidenote (probably belongs to tetex-doc wishlist): It is not very helpfull 
> to compress pdf files, since they normally already contain compressed 
> contents. gv works with this, but for instance acroread does not.

There's still a significant space saving when compressing pdf with gzip
(and there's zxpdf).  This has been discussed on Debian-devel recently,
but no consensus has been found so far.  Or maybe, just nobody bothered
to sum the discussion up.

There are already bugs open on this against tetex-doc;  I'm not going to
change this until there's a Debian-wide consensus (got much more
important things to do...).

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)