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 like to have > > > > documentation, and > > > > support zlib compression is almost universal. > > > > > > I would not have any objection against a tool which would compress files > > > upon installation for those users who want it. But I don't think having > > > to compress files inside the .deb package buys us very much anymore. > > > > 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. > > This is a common misunderstanding with dpkg's file triggers. When the > trigger is activated, you only know that something changed in > /usr/share/doc but you don't know what changed. So it would be a rather > costly operation to rescan all of /usr/share/doc/ just to compress the new > files.
Oh, hrm. yeah, scratch that then. > Furthermore, just like Russ said, it's a very bad idea to change files > installed by dpkg. If you change the filename, dpkg won't find the file > when it has to remove the package. (Even if you had only to change the > content, you'd break tools like debsums) True. -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120221084740.ga26...@grep.be
