From: Charles Plessy
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2013 06:37:12 +0000 (+0900)
Subject: Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5.
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Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5.
Closes: #676784
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diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index fe4a858..bc23f5c 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@ debian-policy (3.9.5.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
* Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
Closes: #705403
+ * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
-- Russ Allbery Sat, 03 Nov 2012 15:32:46 -0700
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 953d5d2..cb1093f 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -8853,7 +8853,9 @@ ln -fs ../sbin/sendmail debian/tmp/usr/bin/runq
- A symbolic link pointing to a compressed file should always
+ A symbolic link pointing to a compressed file (in the sense
+ that it is meant to be uncompressed with unzip
+ or zless etc.) should always
have the same file extension as the referenced file. (For
example, if a file foo.gz is referenced by a
symbolic link, the filename of the link has to end with