Bug#375406: debhelper: dh_compress should not attempt to compress PDF files

2006-10-20 Thread Peter Eisentraut
Note that the policy was recently changed/clarified (see bug #367697), and now it only calls for "plain text" documentation to be compressed. I suggest that dh_compress should not compress anything that has an extension and that extension is not .txt or something similar. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#375406: debhelper: dh_compress should not attempt to compress PDF files [patch]

2006-06-25 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Package: debhelper Version: 5.0.37.2 Severity: normal A compressed PDF file can't be displayed with most tools (xpdf, evince, gpdf, kpdf), and an ordinary user can't uncompress it in place, so must copy it somewhere else then uncompress there, wasting disk space on an extra copy. Also, since a P