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 level tag count information
cacti 1.2.30+ds1-2 cacti/1.2.30+ds1-2 overridden changelog-file-not-compressed 1 [usr/share/doc/cacti/changelog]
ifeffit 2:1.2.11d-15 ifeffit/2:1.2.11d-15 error changelog-file-not-compressed 7 [usr/share/doc/ifeffit/changelog]
ifeffit 2:1.2.11d-15 ifeffit/2:1.2.11d-15 error changelog-file-not-compressed 7 [usr/share/doc/ifeffit/changelog.Debian]
ifeffit 2:1.2.11d-15 ifeffit/2:1.2.11d-15+b1 error changelog-file-not-compressed 1 [usr/share/doc/ifeffit/changelog]
ifeffit 2:1.2.11d-15 ifeffit/2:1.2.11d-15+b1 error changelog-file-not-compressed 1 [usr/share/doc/ifeffit/changelog.Debian]
ifeffit 2:1.2.11d-15 libifeffit-perl/2:1.2.11d-15 error changelog-file-not-compressed 7 [usr/share/doc/libifeffit-perl/changelog.Debian]
ifeffit 2:1.2.11d-15 libifeffit-perl/2:1.2.11d-15 error changelog-file-not-compressed 7 [usr/share/doc/libifeffit-perl/changelog]
ifeffit 2:1.2.11d-15 libifeffit-perl/2:1.2.11d-15+b1 error changelog-file-not-compressed 1 [usr/share/doc/libifeffit-perl/changelog]
ifeffit 2:1.2.11d-15 libifeffit-perl/2:1.2.11d-15+b1 error changelog-file-not-compressed 1 [usr/share/doc/libifeffit-perl/changelog.Debian]
lomiri-action-api 1.2.1-1 lomiri-action-api-doc/1.2.1-1 error changelog-file-not-compressed 1 [usr/share/doc/lomiri-action-api-doc/changelog]
lomiri-action-api 1.2.1-1 lomiri-action-api-doc/1.2.1-1 error changelog-file-not-compressed 1 [usr/share/doc/lomiri-action-api-doc/changelog.Debian]
mbrola-af1 0.0.20040426+repack2-6 mbrola-af1/0.0.20040426+repack2-6 error changelog-file-not-compressed 1 [usr/share/doc/mbrola-af1/changelog.Debian]
mbrola-ar1 1.0+repack2-3 mbrola-ar1/1.0+repack2-3 error changelog-file-not-compressed 1 [usr/share/doc/mbrola-ar1/changelog.Debian]
mbrola-ar2 0.0.20001015+repack2-3 mbrola-ar2/0.0.20001015+repack2-3 error changelog-file-not-compressed 1 [usr/share/doc/mbrola-ar2/changelog.Debian]
mbrola-br1 2.021+repack2-5 mbrola-br1/2.021+repack2-5 error changelog-file-not-compressed 1 [usr/share/doc/mbrola-br1/changelog.Debian]
mbrola-br2 2.021+repack2-5 mbrola-br2/2.021+repack2-5 error changelog-file-not-compressed 1 [usr/share/doc/mbrola-br2/changelog.Debian]
mbrola-br3 2.021+repack2-6 mbrola-br3/2.021+repack2-6 error changelog-file-not-compressed 1 [usr/share/doc/mbrola-br3/changelog.Debian]
mbrola-br4 1.0+repack2-5 mbrola-br4/1.0+repack2-5 error changelog-file-not-compressed 1 [usr/share/doc/mbrola-br4/changelog.Debian]
mbrola-bz1 0.99+repack2-3 mbrola-bz1/0.99+repack2-3 error changelog-file-not-compressed 1 [usr/share/doc/mbrola-bz1/changelog.Debian]
mbrola-ca1 1.00+repack2-3 mbrola-ca1/1.00+repack2-3 error changelog-file-not-compressed 1 [usr/share/doc/mbrola-ca1/changelog.Debian]
navarp 1.6.0-4 python-navarp-doc/1.6.0-4 error changelog-file-not-compressed 1 [usr/share/doc/python-navarp-doc/changelog.html]
rt-app 1.0-1.2 rt-app/1.0-1.2 error changelog-file-not-compressed 7 [usr/share/doc/rt-app/changelog.Debian]
rt-app 1.0-1.2 rt-app/1.0-1.2+b1 error changelog-file-not-compressed 1 [usr/share/doc/rt-app/changelog.Debian]
xpa 2.1.20-3 libxpa-dev/2.1.20-3+b1 overridden changelog-file-not-compressed 8 [usr/share/doc/libxpa-dev/changelog.html]