(From private Email) Sven Rudolph writes: > > I assume that you are responsible for the bug reports mirror in the > ftp area at master.debian.org .
Yup. > Since the last restructuring they have been stored there gzipped. Now > a WWW client cannot follow the links anymore, because it looks for > files ????.html, but only the file ????.html.gz is available. > I'd suggest to store the files uncompresse again. Compressing does not > save that much in space and makes using the files quite difficult. Hmm.. Good point. I didn't think of that. I guess it seems reasonable to compress the plain text versions, and keep the html ones uncompressed. I was just looking to save some mirror traffic. Looking at 20 meg that totally turns over once a week at the least. > You micht want to ask others for their opinion on this ... Does anyone have any opinions or use models that they can help me with here? I must say that I really have no idea how the ftp'able stuff (or even the email stuff) is used. -- Carl Streeter | "I'll forgive even GNU emacs as long [EMAIL PROTECTED] | as gcc is available" --Linus Torvalds Just another Perl hacker | "Etiquette-wise, there is no proper time Ask me about Debian/GNU Linux. | to use the phrase 'It sucks.'" --Dogbert

