[debhelper-devel] Bug#784016: debhelper: dh_compress gzips html documents

[Sven Joachim]

Package: debhelper
Version: 9.20150501
Severity: grave

When building ncurses, I saw a lintian error:

,----
| E: ncurses-doc: doc-base-file-references-missing-file ncurses-doc:20 /usr/share/doc/ncurses-doc/html/man/*.html
`----

Looking into the ncurses-doc deb, all HTML files except index.html under
/usr/share/doc/ncurses-doc/html are gzipped.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.0.1-nouveau (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/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  binutils      2.25-7
ii  dpkg          1.17.25
ii  dpkg-dev      1.17.25
ii  file          1:5.22+15-2
ii  libdpkg-perl  1.17.25
ii  man-db        2.7.0.2-5
ii  perl          5.20.2-4
ii  po-debconf    1.0.18

debhelper recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
ii  dh-make  1.20140617

-- no debconf information