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[PATCH] Compress past NEWS files during installation

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From: Alex <agrambot <at> gmail.com>
To: 33880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#33880: [PATCH] Compress past NEWS files during installation
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 08:57:13 -0600

agrambot <at> gmail.com writes:

> This shaves off just over a MB off of the installation using gzip -9.
> While I was at it, I put in the compression of etc/refcards/*.ps, which
> covers part of a TODO.
>
> I wanted to compress etc/refcards/*.tex as well, but I noticed that it
> would affect the Makefile that is also installed. It appears to be the
> only Makefile that's installed; if there's little or no reason for it,
> would it be okay to remove it during installation and compress the *.tex
> files as well?

Ping.  Is this okay to apply to master?

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