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From: Francesco Turco <fturco@××××××××.fm>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Some files in /usr/share/doc are not compressed
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2012 10:54:30
Message-Id: 1356000788.18558.140661168353077.13FEA8D4@webmail.messagingengine.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Some files in /usr/share/doc are not compressed by Francesco Turco
1 On Thu, Dec 20, 2012, at 10:57, Francesco Turco wrote:
2 > Then I looked for non-zero size files only, because it makes no sense to
3 > compress empty files. The list dropped to 9 files, belonging to 4
4 > different ebuilds or 3 packages:
5 >
6 > > /usr/share/doc/automake-1.12.5/amhello-1.0.tar.gz
7 > > /usr/share/doc/libasyncns-0.8-r2/README
8 > > /usr/share/doc/automake-1.11.6/amhello-1.0.tar.gz
9 > > /usr/share/doc/groff-1.21-r1/meref.ps
10 > > /usr/share/doc/groff-1.21-r1/meref.me
11 > > /usr/share/doc/groff-1.21-r1/pic.ps
12 > > /usr/share/doc/groff-1.21-r1/pic.ms
13 > > /usr/share/doc/groff-1.21-r1/meintro.me
14 > > /usr/share/doc/groff-1.21-r1/meintro.ps
15 >
16 > Perhaps I may report these ones.
17
18 It seems that amhello-1.0.tar.gz is already present in the tarball from
19 the distfiles directory, so it is not Portage responsible for
20 compressing in gz format. But it would be a good thing if Portage could
21 recompress that file in xz format instead. I don't know if this is
22 possible. So I won't file a bug report for this, as I think it could be
23 closed as invalid.
24
25 groff-1.21-r1 installs postscript files (which are not compressible) and
26 related files. So I don't think it's a good idea to file a report for
27 this, too.
28
29 So the only bug I decided to report is for libasyncns-0.8-r2:
30 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=447936.