Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 26/06/2006 (05:08) : > On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 16:51 -0400, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > > > > I have no idea how debhelper works. Are there anybody out there that > > > can help with getting it to stop gzipping files in -doc? > > > > dh_compress already has a list of file extensions where (re-)compressing > > doesn't make sense. I've submitted Bug#375406 with a patch (below) to > > add .pdf to the list. > > If I read the discussion correctly up to this point, some PDFs are > fairly compressible and some are not. Perhaps dh_compress could evaluate > this for each .pdf and only compress those files where the saving is > significant (say 40%)?
Why this space saving concern for -doc packages? I really don't get it. If you want to save space gzip all html files and make web browsers work out-of-the-box with gzipped html files. If a pdf file is huge because of lack of internal compression then isn't it better to use a tool that compresses internally than to fix the symptoms? Anyway I'm asking for user friendliness. As for the statistics that has been brought up. Are there +3000 pdf files in the doc-packages of Debian? Preben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]