On Wed, 2012-02-08 at 22:01:23 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote: > In practice, the only compressor we need to care is gzip, which is > not actively maintained upstream[0]. Chances that a new version of > it will break large number of packages are minute.
That assumes that we will never want to switch to a better/faster compressor for any gzip compressed file. Or that there's no existing files compressed with anything other than gzip. > But anyway, I believe that in the long run we should simply > deprecate compressing stuff in /usr/share/doc/. So the main reason people are arguing for shared files boils down to used size, either in installed files, or Packages files, etc, yet you want to fix the compression issue by not compressing them and using even more space? While this could benefit the multiarch installations (for which they can easily use --path-exclude), it would use lots more space on single arch installations. Also splitting files into new arch:all packages should usually reduce archive size usage for example. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120209024549.gb6...@gaara.hadrons.org
