[Pkg-octave-devel] Bug#762078: Bug#762078: Bug#762078: on disk help freezes octave gui

[Rafael Laboissiere]

* Sébastien Villemot <sebastien at debian.org> [2014-10-07 23:00]:

> I am tempted to disable compression of info files, since it is an easy 
> fix for the problem with the GUI, and the cost in terms of additional 
> space is limited (something like 2MB).
>
> At any rate, we need to reach a decision soon, since the jessie freeze 
> is very close. What do you think?

According to the Debian Policy manual, section 12.2: "[Info documents] 
should be compressed with gzip -9." We have a "should" here instead of a 
"must" and, according to section 1.1: "Non-conformance with guidelines 
denoted by _should_ (or _recommended_) will generally be considered a 
bug, but will not necessarily render a package unsuitable for 
distribution."

That said, I would follow Sébastien's suggestion and disable compression 
of info files for jessie.

Rafael