Policy says that "small" files should be compressed, but does not define small. The default blocksize seems like a good definition. What is the default blocksize? 1k? 4k? Variable? I have heard all three answers.
I'm considering changing debhelper to compress doc files > 1k, which is surely the smallest block size anyone might have, but I'd like some input from this group about what polciy actually means, first. ----- Forwarded message from Massimo Dal Zotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- From: Massimo Dal Zotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: dh_compress To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 13:06:32 +0100 (MET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL48 (25)] Hi, I wonder why the minimum size which triggers the automatic compression in dh_compress is 4k instead of 1k. If the goal of dh_compress is to save some space on the harddisk we should try to compress any file greater than 1k which is the default block size of linux filesystems. For example a text file of 4095 bytes, which is currently ignored by dh_compress, uses 4 disk blocks while it could very likely gzipped to use only one block. The change is trivial: 41c41 < find usr/doc usr/share/doc -type f \\( -size +4k -or -name "changelog*" \\) \\ --- > find usr/doc usr/share/doc -type f \\( -size +1k -or > -name "changelog*" \\) \\ -- Massimo Dal Zotto +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Massimo Dal Zotto email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Via Marconi, 141 phone: ++39-0461534251 | | 38057 Pergine Valsugana (TN) www: http://www.cs.unitn.it/~dz/ | | Italy pgp: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- see shy jo
