[debhelper-devel] Bug#784016: Bug#784016: debhelper: dh_compress gzips html documents

[Niels Thykier]

Control: reopen 740405

On 2015-05-02 10:12, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Control: tags -1 confirmed
> 
> On 2015-05-02 09:58, Sven Joachim wrote:
>> Package: debhelper
>> Version: 9.20150501
>> Severity: grave
>>
>> When building ncurses, I saw a lintian error:
>>
>> ,----
>> | E: ncurses-doc: doc-base-file-references-missing-file ncurses-doc:20 /usr/share/doc/ncurses-doc/html/man/*.html
>> `----
>>
>> Looking into the ncurses-doc deb, all HTML files except index.html under
>> /usr/share/doc/ncurses-doc/html are gzipped.
>>
>>
>> [...]
> 
> Thanks, I suspect I found the guilty commit - I will just be confirming
> my suspicion.
> 
> ~Niels
> 
> 

Got it!  Reverting d5c08b71d7a59dfa5e082672ae2548eee7503fda[1] fixes the
problem.  Expect an upload to unstable shortly.

Osamu: Lets look into a revised version of your patch for the next
release. :)

Thanks,
~Niels

[1]
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debhelper/debhelper.git/commit/?id=d5c08b71d7a59dfa5e082672ae2548eee7503fda