On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 08:22:52AM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: […] > As such, I believe the requirement to compress files is an anachronism > that we should get rid of. > > Thoughts?
In general, I agree with the rationale in principle. I think it's possibly important to note that given that the HTML documentation is already not compressed, we already have a precedent for not compressing some types of documentation because (I presume) it excessively hinders their general usability. I think the same argument can be made for PDF and text files; while it's true some tools can cope with the compression, the number of times I tab complete a less </usr/share/doc/xxx> command to find it's an unreadable mess, and have to repeat that with [xx]less or some other tool is very frequent--usually several times a day. So I think there is immediate user benefit to this. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- 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/20120220103842.gm26...@codelibre.net