On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 05:10:04PM -0700, Darren Benham wrote:
> Is --best the same as -9?
They are, at least according to gzip man page:
-- snip --
-# --fast --best
Regulate the speed of compression using the speci
fied digit #, wh
On Mon, May 01, 2000 at 10:05:25PM +0100, Pedro Guerreiro wrote:
>How does lintian (or I) see if a man page is compressed with the --best
>option?
lintian runs `file' on each page, then checks that the output contains:
/gzip compressed data/ and
/max compression/
Regards,
--
Brendan O'D
On Mon, 1 May 2000, Darren Benham wrote:
> Is --best the same as -9?
Yes. From the manual page of gzip:
...
where -1 or --fast indicates the
fastest compression method (less compression) and
-9 or --best indicates the slowest co
Is --best the same as -9?
On 01-May-2000 Pedro Guerreiro wrote:
> ght now it seems that there is an error somewhere. Let me explain: when
> packaging greed, lintian reported that the man page was not compressed with
> the --best option. Ok, I've decompressed it and compressed again with this
> swi
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