> Well, in the mlgtk package i maintain, i have the Makefile gunzipping the > needed file automatically, and make clean gziping them again. (i also have a > make clean in the example dir during prerm, so dpkg will remove the correct > files). > > I think something such as that is a good solution, since the files can still > be installed gzipped, and only someone who wants to test them will unzip this, > thus using less space in /usr ...
No. We must not encourage users to work in /usr/... . I even think that having those files "unuseable" is good for that, it makes users copy them elsewhere.
