Bug#751395: Do not compress perl scripts

Ansgar Burchardt ansgar at debian.org
Thu Jun 12 15:27:25 UTC 2014


On 06/12/2014 14:48, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> Package: vtk6-doc
> Version: 6.1.0+dfsg-5
> Severity: important
> 
> This is sort of a duplicate of 610964. Third party app expect the perl
> scripts to not be compressed. Marking as important, but should be
> grave since it will make package such as GDCM FTBFS.

That would be a bug in GDCM:

+--
| Packages must not require the existence of any files in
| /usr/share/doc/ in order to function [114].
|
| [114] The system administrator should be able to delete files in
| /usr/share/doc/ without causing any programs to break.
+--[ Debian Policy, 12.3 Additional documentation ]

Ansgar



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