clone 258942 -1 retitle -1 debhelper: dh_compress should not compress HTML or XHTML files severity -1 wishlist reassign -1 debhelper retitle 258942 xfree86-common: pass --exclude to dh_compress so XHTML version of FAQ is left alone thanks On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 01:21:56PM +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote: > Package: xfree86-common > Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 > Severity: minor > > /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz contains the following passage: > > On Debian systems with the xfree86-common package installed, > you can find this FAQ at > file:///usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.xhtml. > > However the file /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.xhtml does not exist. > Instead, there is /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.xhtml.gz, but > Mozilla Firefox refuses to open that file in a browser window, > presenting an Open With dialog instead. > > Could you leave FAQ.xhtml uncompressed? Or, if that is against the > policy, update the file name in the FAQ itself and advise the user that > she will have to copy and uncompress that file manually before she can > open it in a browser? Hmm, I thought debhelper knew better than to compress XHTML. Apparently it doesn't. OTOH, Debian Policy seems to neither mandate nor forbid the compression of (X)HTML documents. I am cloning a wishlist bug on debhelper while we figure out what the best recommended practice is. It's a shame so many web browsers are too stupid to decompress gzipped files. -- G. Branden Robinson | It's not a matter of alienating Debian GNU/Linux | authors. They have every right to branden@debian.org | license their software however we http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | like. -- Craig Sanders
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