On Monday 26 June 2006 11:46, Preben Randhol wrote: > Paul Wise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 26/06/2006 (05:08) : > > 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%)? > > Why this space saving concern for -doc packages? I really don't get it. > If you want to save space gzip all html files and make web browsers work > out-of-the-box with gzipped html files. If a pdf file is huge because of > lack of internal compression then isn't it better to use a tool that > compresses internally than to fix the symptoms? > > Anyway I'm asking for user friendliness. > > As for the statistics that has been brought up. Are there +3000 pdf > files in the doc-packages of Debian?
You can stroke such sort of queries at http://ara.edos-project.org. For instance, regex'ing on the "Package:" field, like that: package:/-doc$/ Total 832 packages (and 2090 versions). package:/^doc-/ Total 44 packages (and 97 versions). -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 <people.fccf.net/danchev/key pgp.mit.edu> fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
