> I also experienced a 10% increase of the size in the manpages-it package. > I was wandering if I could package the man pages uncompressed and compress > them in debian/rules during installation. This would create a dependency > to gzip package, but I think that this already exists when we package the > pages zipped! Is it possible that a debian system be without gzip?
Don't do this, the filenames mentioned in the dpkg listfiles database won't be correct with what is actually installed. Erick
