On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 11:58:42PM -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote: > Of cause we can call PDFs as "text documentation", but often with the > same success as png's with text in them. I bet policy intended to > address regular textual (ASCII) files with documentation. The "text documentation is significant. We're only assuming we know what they were trying to describe here.
> Ironically .zip is among them (I believe PDF internally uses zip > compression, doesn't it?) Whatever the compression is, it is not too good. I'm getting about 10-30% compression on pdfs. Random text is just under 50% for me. > > Once policy is changed, yes. But not before. > So as to me, there is no real need in fixing the policy, but rather this > question has to be addressed in dev ref, or in packaging practices. ? It needs to be clarified somewhere. Is a 10-30% compression ratio enough to make it worthwhile? It is not debhelper's place to decide this but in our documentation. - Craig -- Craig Small GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.enc.com.au/ MIEE Debian developer csmall at : enc.com.au ieee.org debian.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
