GNU bug report logs - #33880
[PATCH] Compress past NEWS files during installation

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: agrambot <at> gmail.com

Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 19:51:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch, wontfix

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #29 received at 33880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Alex <agrambot <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 33880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, michael.albinus <at> gmx.de
Subject: Re: bug#33880: [PATCH] Compress past NEWS files during installation
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.)
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