Package: lintian Version: 1.24.2.1 Severity: normal Hi,
in chapter 12.3 the policy says: "Any additional documentation that comes with the package may be installed at the discretion of the package maintainer. Plain text documentation should be installed in the directory `/usr/share/doc/<package>', where <package> is the name of the package, and compressed with `gzip -9' unless it is small." This bug report is about the last four words of this paragraph: If a provided plain text file is small it does not need to get compressed. Regardless of this exception Lintian complains about such files with a changelog-file-not-compressed error. For the records: Debhelper (dh_compress) considers files smaller than 4k (typical file system block size) to be "small". Regards Micha -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages lintian depends on: ii binutils 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc ii dpkg-dev 1.14.25 Debian package development tools ii file 4.26-1 Determines file type using "magic" ii gettext 0.17-4 GNU Internationalization utilities ii intltool-debian 0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf ii libparse-debianchan 1.1.1-2 parse Debian changelogs and output ii libtimedate-perl 1.1600-9 Time and date functions for Perl ii liburi-perl 1.35.dfsg.1-1 Manipulates and accesses URI strin ii man-db 2.5.2-4 on-line manual pager ii perl [libdigest-sha 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction lintian recommends no packages. Versions of packages lintian suggests: ii binutils-multiarch 2.18.1~cvs20080103-7 Binary utilities that support mult ii libtext-template-pe 1.44-1.2 Text::Template perl module ii man-db 2.5.2-4 on-line manual pager -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org