Lintian tag: changelog-file-not-compressed

Type: error

Description (from lintian-explain-tags)

Changelog files should be compressed using "gzip -9". Even if they start
out small, they will become large with time.

Please refer to Changelog files and release notes (Section 12.7) in the
Debian Policy Manual for details.

Visibility: error
Show-Always: no
Check: debian/changelog

Affected packages

source version binary tag type tag information count
cacti 1.2.28+ds1-2 cacti/1.2.28+ds1-2 overridden changelog-file-not-compressed [usr/share/doc/cacti/changelog] 1
linux86 0.16.17-3.9 bcc/0.16.17-3.9 error changelog-file-not-compressed [usr/share/doc/bcc/changelog.Debian] 9
linux86 0.16.17-3.9 bcc/0.16.17-3.9 error changelog-file-not-compressed [usr/share/doc/bcc/changelog] 9
linux86 0.16.17-3.9 bin86/0.16.17-3.9 error changelog-file-not-compressed [usr/share/doc/bin86/changelog] 9
linux86 0.16.17-3.9 bin86/0.16.17-3.9 error changelog-file-not-compressed [usr/share/doc/bin86/changelog.Debian] 9
linux86 0.16.17-3.9 elks-libc/0.16.17-3.9 error changelog-file-not-compressed [usr/share/doc/elks-libc/changelog] 1
linux86 0.16.17-3.9 elks-libc/0.16.17-3.9 error changelog-file-not-compressed [usr/share/doc/elks-libc/changelog.Debian] 1
navarp 1.6.0-4 python-navarp-doc/1.6.0-4 error changelog-file-not-compressed [usr/share/doc/python-navarp-doc/changelog.html] 1
rt-app 1.0-1 rt-app/1.0-1 error changelog-file-not-compressed [usr/share/doc/rt-app/changelog.Debian] 7
rt-app 1.0-1 rt-app/1.0-1+b1 error changelog-file-not-compressed [usr/share/doc/rt-app/changelog.Debian] 2
xpa 2.1.20-3 libxpa-dev/2.1.20-3 overridden changelog-file-not-compressed [usr/share/doc/libxpa-dev/changelog.html] 9