On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 16:51 -0400, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > > I have no idea how debhelper works. Are there anybody out there that > > can help with getting it to stop gzipping files in -doc? > > dh_compress already has a list of file extensions where (re-)compressing > doesn't make sense. I've submitted Bug#375406 with a patch (below) to > add .pdf to the list.
If I read the discussion correctly up to this point, some PDFs are fairly compressible and some are not. Perhaps dh_compress could evaluate this for each .pdf and only compress those files where the saving is significant (say 40%)? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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