Subject: bug#33880: [PATCH] Compress past NEWS files during installation

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 18:00:36 -0400

FWIW, I think files like NEWS belong in /usr/share/doc
(bug#25781, I haven't found any time to work on it yet).
I think compressing the files installed there would be very natural.
(Eg Debian seems to compress text files in /usr/share/doc by default.
Looks like Red Hat does not, though.)