Hi there,

just forwarding this I'll try to fix it

Robert
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Package: htdig
Version: 3.2.0b5-4
Severity: wishlist

Debian stores most non-HTML docs in gzip-compressed format. Any decent
browser handles these transparently. I.e. viewing changelog.Debian.gz
works just the same as viewing changelog.Debian. 

According to /etc/mime.types "Compression schemes like "gzip", "bzip",
and "compress" are not actually "mime-types". They are encodings (...)."

I.e. if the web server declares that foobar.txt.gz is text/plain,
Mozilla will decode it on-the-fly and display it as plain text.

htdig should be doing just the same, else a substantial portion of the
contents of /doc/ will never be indexed.

Thanks,

Johannes

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-1-k7
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8

Versions of packages htdig depends on:
ii  debconf                     1.4.16       Debian configuration management sy
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1                     1:3.3.3-5    GCC support library
ii  libnewt0.51                 0.51.4-23    Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit - tex
ii  libstdc++5                  1:3.3.3-5    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  lockfile-progs              0.1.10       Programs for locking and unlocking
ii  perl                        5.8.3-2      Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  zlib1g                      1:1.2.1-5    compression library - runtime

-- debconf information:
* htdig/generate-databases: false
  htdig/dblocation-changed: 
  htdig/remove-databases: false
* htdig/run-htnotify: false



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