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Bug#407979: marked as done (tetex-doc: pdf files should not be gzipped)

Your message dated Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:03:14 +0000
with message-id <E1Hc0pO-00046v-Iz@ries.debian.org>
and subject line Bug#407979: fixed in texlive-doc 2007-2
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

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If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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Package: tetex-doc
Version: 2.0.2c-3
Severity: minor

PDF is usually already compressed (often a PDF file is roughly the
same size as the gzipped postscript), so gzipping a PDF file usually
does not save much space.  Instead it inconveniences the user because
neither acroread (v5.0) nor xpdf (v3.00) opens compressed pdf files
(gv, i.e. ghostscript, is fine though).  The user therefore either
must ask the sysadmin to uncompress the files in place in
/usr/share/doc/texmf/ or must uncompress it into a working directory.

Therefore could all the .pdf files be stored uncompressed?

$ dpkg -L tetex-doc | grep '\.pdf\.gz$' | wc -l

says there are 62 gzipped pdf files in tetex-doc.  

This pipeline

$ gzip -l `dpkg -L tetex-doc | grep '\.pdf\.gz$'` \
  | tail +2  \
  | awk '{total1 += $1; total2 += $2}; END {print total1/total2};'
(output: 0.734089)

says that their total compressed size is about 73% of the uncompressed
total.  It's a saving, but I don't think it's worth the hassle to the
user.

Whereas running the same command for the .ps.gz files says that the
compressed ps files take up, in total, about 40% of the space of the
uncompressed ones.  That seems like a worthwhile saving, especially
since it causes no inconvenience because the main ps viewer (gv and/or
ghostscript) happily opens .ps.gz files.  (Ditto for .dvi.gz files and
xdvi.)

Apologies if this issue is a Debian packaging policy decision that I
should discuss on a different list (let me know which one).  Most of
the .pdf.gz files are from tetex-doc; the other major contributing
packages are doc-debian, apt-howto-*, and mit-scheme.

-Sanjoy

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-200412041
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages tetex-doc depends on:
ii  dpkg                          1.10.25    Package maintenance system for Deb

-- no debconf information

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Source: texlive-doc
Source-Version: 2007-2

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
texlive-doc, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

texlive-doc-base_2007-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/t/texlive-doc/texlive-doc-base_2007-2_all.deb
texlive-doc-bg_2007-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/t/texlive-doc/texlive-doc-bg_2007-2_all.deb
texlive-doc-ch_2007-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/t/texlive-doc/texlive-doc-ch_2007-2_all.deb
texlive-doc-cs+sk_2007-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/t/texlive-doc/texlive-doc-cs+sk_2007-2_all.deb
texlive-doc-de_2007-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/t/texlive-doc/texlive-doc-de_2007-2_all.deb
texlive-doc-el_2007-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/t/texlive-doc/texlive-doc-el_2007-2_all.deb
texlive-doc-en_2007-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/t/texlive-doc/texlive-doc-en_2007-2_all.deb
texlive-doc-es_2007-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/t/texlive-doc/texlive-doc-es_2007-2_all.deb
texlive-doc-fi_2007-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/t/texlive-doc/texlive-doc-fi_2007-2_all.deb
texlive-doc-fr_2007-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/t/texlive-doc/texlive-doc-fr_2007-2_all.deb
texlive-doc-it_2007-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/t/texlive-doc/texlive-doc-it_2007-2_all.deb
texlive-doc-ja_2007-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/t/texlive-doc/texlive-doc-ja_2007-2_all.deb
texlive-doc-ko_2007-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/t/texlive-doc/texlive-doc-ko_2007-2_all.deb
texlive-doc-mn_2007-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/t/texlive-doc/texlive-doc-mn_2007-2_all.deb
texlive-doc-nl_2007-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/t/texlive-doc/texlive-doc-nl_2007-2_all.deb
texlive-doc-pl_2007-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/t/texlive-doc/texlive-doc-pl_2007-2_all.deb
texlive-doc-pt_2007-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/t/texlive-doc/texlive-doc-pt_2007-2_all.deb
texlive-doc-ru_2007-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/t/texlive-doc/texlive-doc-ru_2007-2_all.deb
texlive-doc-th_2007-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/t/texlive-doc/texlive-doc-th_2007-2_all.deb
texlive-doc-tr_2007-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/t/texlive-doc/texlive-doc-tr_2007-2_all.deb
texlive-doc-uk_2007-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/t/texlive-doc/texlive-doc-uk_2007-2_all.deb
texlive-doc-vi_2007-2_all.deb
  to pool/main/t/texlive-doc/texlive-doc-vi_2007-2_all.deb
texlive-doc_2007-2.diff.gz
  to pool/main/t/texlive-doc/texlive-doc_2007-2.diff.gz
texlive-doc_2007-2.dsc
  to pool/main/t/texlive-doc/texlive-doc_2007-2.dsc



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 407979@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Norbert Preining <preining@debian.org> (supplier of updated texlive-doc package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
administrators by mailing ftpmaster@debian.org)


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Format: 1.7
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 18:16:00 +0200
Source: texlive-doc
Binary: texlive-doc-bg texlive-doc-pl texlive-doc-it texlive-doc-fr texlive-doc-fi texlive-doc-el texlive-doc-cs+sk texlive-doc-pt texlive-doc-nl texlive-doc-ru texlive-doc-vi texlive-doc-es texlive-doc-ch texlive-doc-base texlive-doc-ko texlive-doc-tr texlive-doc-de texlive-doc-uk texlive-doc-mn texlive-doc-th texlive-doc-ja texlive-doc-en
Architecture: source all
Version: 2007-2
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Debian TeX Maintainers <debian-tex-maint@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Norbert Preining <preining@debian.org>
Description: 
 texlive-doc-base - TeX Live: Base documentation
 texlive-doc-bg - TeX Live: Bulgarian documentation
 texlive-doc-ch - TeX Live: Chinese documentation
 texlive-doc-cs+sk - TeX Live: Czechslovak documentation
 texlive-doc-de - TeX Live: German documentation
 texlive-doc-el - TeX Live: Greek documentation
 texlive-doc-en - TeX Live: English documentation
 texlive-doc-es - TeX Live: Spanish documentation
 texlive-doc-fi - TeX Live: Finnish documentation
 texlive-doc-fr - TeX Live: French documentation
 texlive-doc-it - TeX Live: Italian documentation
 texlive-doc-ja - TeX Live: Japanese documentation
 texlive-doc-ko - TeX Live: Korean documentation
 texlive-doc-mn - TeX Live: Mongolian documentation
 texlive-doc-nl - TeX Live: Dutch documentation
 texlive-doc-pl - TeX Live: Polish documentation
 texlive-doc-pt - TeX Live: Portuguese documentation
 texlive-doc-ru - TeX Live: Russian documentation
 texlive-doc-th - TeX Live: Thai documentation
 texlive-doc-tr - TeX Live: Turkish documentation
 texlive-doc-uk - TeX Live: Ukrainian documentation
 texlive-doc-vi - TeX Live: Vietnamese documentation
Closes: 407979
Changes: 
 texlive-doc (2007-2) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * first upload of TeX Live 2007 to unstable
   * do not compress documentation pdf files (Closes: #407979)
Files: 
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 a5586b8e8f7192e4e700bfa3ab423c70 2142840 tex optional texlive-doc-uk_2007-2_all.deb
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