On 25-Feb-99 Adrian Bridgett wrote: > I've got a package with _loads_ of .html files, but I can't see if they > should be compressed or not. The policy-manual describes what to do for > info files and manpages, but not for HTML - it just falls under the > "compress unless it's small". > > I've no idea which webserver can server .gz files uncompressed, but I'd > think it was most of them. >
If it goes into /usr/docs, compress large files (dh_compress takes care of this). The user is responsible for uncompressing the info. New apaches can be forced to read gzipped pages.