Bug#4137: libpaper contains compressed manpage, or policy should change
Yves I remember that a long time ago it was said that it was okay to gzip Yves manual pages because the manual reader did handle them nicely? Lars Our man seems to handle them OK. Since there can be tens of Lars megabytes of manual pages (I have 18 MB), I think compressing them Lars would be a good idea. We already compress them. I seem to have 108 compressed man pages, coming from 14 of the 210 packages I have installed. Could this be added to the guidelines as either a policy, or at least an option? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ find /usr/man -name \*.gz | wc -l 108 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ grep -l -e /usr/man.*gz /var/lib/dpkg/info/*list | wc -l 14 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ ls -1 /var/lib/dpkg/info/*list | wc -l 210 -- Dirk Eddelbuttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
Bug#4137: libpaper contains compressed manpage, or policy should change
Package: libpaper Version: 1.0-1 The package contains: -r--r--r-- root/root 718 Aug 13 18:04 1996 usr/man/man1/paper.1.gz 2. Either it should not be compressed (see the guidelines) or we should mandate compressed manpages. I remember that a long time ago it was said that it was okay to gzip manual pages because the manual reader did handle them nicely? If not, I vote for having gzipped manual pages. The problem if it is not specified clearly is that one cannot just gzip -9f /usr/man/man?/* because then when packages are removed the original manual pages are not found and the gzipped ones not removed; and it would be foolish to make dpkg handle that special case. If nobody objects, can we have gzipped (not compressed) manual pages by default? In the meantime, should I not compress the manual pages? Yves.
Bug#4137: libpaper contains compressed manpage, or policy should change
Yves Arrouye: I remember that a long time ago it was said that it was okay to gzip manual pages because the manual reader did handle them nicely? Our man seems to handle them OK. Since there can be tens of megabytes of manual pages (I have 18 MB), I think compressing them would be a good idea. -- Please read http://www.iki.fi/liw/mail-to-lasu.html before mailing me. Please don't Cc: me when replying to my message on a mailing list. pgpffqo8cOxrz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Bug#4137: libpaper contains compressed manpage, or policy should change
Ian 2. Either it should not be compressed (see the guidelines) or we Ian should mandate compressed manpages. In this case the guidelines are of. Bruce waved his hand a while ago and allowed parallel existence of compressed and uncompressed manpages. Some maintainers, yours truly included, started to compress man pages: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ find /usr/man/ -name \*gz |wc -l 107 In this case, the Guidelines need updating. -- Dirk Eddelbuttel http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd
