Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > According to SVG specifications[1] and freedesktop's mime database[2], > the compressed .svg files should be named *.svgz (not .svg.gz) > > Files that are named *.svg.gz are identified as application/x-gzip > instead of image/svg+xml-compressed. Therefore, those files are treated > as an archive (wrong file association, wrong icon). > > I am opening the bug against debhelper because it will compress any > svg in /usr/share/doc/*, but some .svg.gz might be provided by upstream.
gunzip, however, cannot decompress .svgz files unless the file is renamed or piped. It might be better for dh_compress to exclude .svg files from compression, as it does for other images. It would certianly be simpler than adding a special case extension. -- see shy jo
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