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has caused the Debian Bug report #660705,
regarding [proposal] remove the requirement to compress documentation
to be marked as done.
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Hi guys,
I made a small experiment to test whether using xz to compress docs is
a viable idea. Here is my repo with the results from my Debian
machine:
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/users/tomasz/changelog.git
I have around 5000 packages, but the stats should be "percentage-wise
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:51:42AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.9.2
Severity: wishlist
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 09:17:16PM +0100, Iustin Pop wrote:
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 08:22:52AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
Hi,
During a recent discussion on
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 12:51:42AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
During a recent discussion on debian-devel about multiarch, it was shown
that gzip does not always produce the exact same output from a given
input file.
While it was shown that removing the requirement to compress
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:09:15AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
There's more than just my /usr. This system runs off a 160GB SSD, so
500MB is more like 0.5% of the available storage space here.
160GB is in the low end of the available storage of modern systems, and
probably (gut
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 07:09:40PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 06:02:50PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
Debian is used on small systems where users still like to have
documentation, and
support zlib compression is
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 09:01:42AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 07:09:40PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 06:02:50PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
Debian is used on small systems where users still
There's more than just my /usr. This system runs off a 160GB SSD, so
500MB is more like 0.5% of the available storage space here.
160GB is in the low end of the available storage of modern systems, and
probably (gut feeling) about average of systems bought in the past few
years (my
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 08:22:52AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
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As such, I believe the requirement to compress files is an anachronism
that we should get rid of.
Thoughts?
In general, I agree with the rationale in principle. I think it's
possibly important to note that given that the
On 2012-02-20, Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org wrote:
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Hi,
During a recent discussion on debian-devel about multiarch, it was shown
that gzip does not
Wouter Verhelst wou...@debian.org writes:
- Compressing documentation files incurs an additional step on the user
who wants to read said documentation. Yes, there is zless and zmore.
However, there is no ziceweasel, zpdf-reader[2] or zgv. Even if such
tools do exist, we would still
Roger Leigh rle...@codelibre.net writes:
I think the same argument can be made for PDF and text files; while it's
true some tools can cope with the compression, the number of times I tab
complete a less /usr/share/doc/xxx command to find it's an unreadable
mess, and have to repeat that with
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 08:22:52AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
Hi,
During a recent discussion on debian-devel about multiarch, it was shown
that gzip does not always produce the exact same output from a given
input file.
Hello Wouter,
While it was shown that removing the requirement to
* Bill Allombert bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr, 2012-02-20, 18:02:
iceweasel handle compressed file fine
Oh, does it? I just tried to open
/usr/share/doc/ccache/changelog.html.gz and it gave me the following
options:
* Open with /bin/tar (default)
* Save file
I can't say I'm
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 06:49:15PM +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
* Bill Allombert bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr, 2012-02-20, 18:02:
iceweasel handle compressed file fine
Oh, does it? I just tried to open
/usr/share/doc/ccache/changelog.html.gz and it gave me the following
options:
* Open
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 06:02:50PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 08:22:52AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
Hi,
During a recent discussion on debian-devel about multiarch, it was shown
that gzip does not always produce the exact same output from a given
input file.
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 06:02:50PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
As such, I believe the requirement to compress files is an anachronism
that we should get rid of.
I do not like removing a useful requirement in exchange for nothing.
Debian is used on small systems where users still like to
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 08:22:52AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
Hi,
During a recent discussion on debian-devel about multiarch, it was shown
that gzip does not always produce the exact same output from a given
input file.
While it was shown that removing the requirement to compress
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.9.2
Severity: wishlist
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 09:17:16PM +0100, Iustin Pop wrote:
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 08:22:52AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
Hi,
During a recent discussion on debian-devel about multiarch, it was shown
that gzip does not always
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 07:09:40PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 06:02:50PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
Debian is used on small systems where users still like to have
documentation, and
support zlib compression is almost universal.
I would not have any objection
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
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 2:22 AM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
Hi,
During a recent discussion on debian-devel about multiarch, it was shown
that gzip does not always produce the exact same output from a given
input file.
While it was shown that removing the requirement to compress
documentation
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
Hi,
During a recent discussion on debian-devel about multiarch, it was shown
that gzip does not always produce the exact same output from a given
input file.
While it was shown that removing the requirement to compress
documentation would not solve the issue (i.e., the problem was larger
than
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