* Martin Quinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-26 17:00]:
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 12:08:43AM +0200, David Riebenbauer wrote:
> > Package: quilt
> > Version: 0.39-2
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > "man quilt" says:
> > | SEE ALSO
> > |        The pdf documentation, which should be under 
> > /usr/share/doc/quilt/quilt.pdf.
> > 
> > Well, it should be there but it isn't. It is under
> > /usr/share/doc/quilt/quilt.pdf.gz.
> 
> It's not that far away, is it?

No, it isn't. But far enough to annoy me. :)

> > So either the man page should be changed or quilt.pdf should not be
> > gziped.
> > 
> > I would prefer if it was not compressed. Reading gzipped plain text
> > files is not much of a problem with the tools available, but to read
> > gzipped pdfs can be a bit uncomfortable.
> 
> The debian policy enforces that all files under /usr/share/doc bigger than
> 4kb have to be compressed. So you second approach is not an option.
> (And it's not such a big deal since you can see them with zxpdf ;)

I didn't know about zxpdf. Thank for informing me about it.

> I added this text to the manpage:
> 
> >>>
> Note that some distributors compress this file. zxpdf(1) can be used to
> display compressed pdf files.
> <<<

That's ok with me.

> Thanks for reporting,
> Mt.

Thanks for dealing with this.

David



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