On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Wouter Verhelst <wou...@debian.org> writes:
> > To be a bit more specific on this: such a tool could be implemented
> > fairly trivially with a dpkg trigger. Just register a trigger that
> > triggers on any file under /usr/share/doc, and have it call gzip --best
> > on the files it is called with.
> 
> It would be a good idea for removing a package to remove its
> documentation.

If we're going that way, can we please do it the right way for once, and
instead of any hideous hacks from the underworld pits, implement a way to
assign [unknown to dpkg] files to an already installed package?

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh


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