bug#33880: [PATCH] Compress past NEWS files during installation

[Alex]

agrambot@gmail.com writes:

> This shaves off just over a MB off of the installation using gzip -9.
> While I was at it, I put in the compression of etc/refcards/*.ps, which
> covers part of a TODO.
>
> I wanted to compress etc/refcards/*.tex as well, but I noticed that it
> would affect the Makefile that is also installed. It appears to be the
> only Makefile that's installed; if there's little or no reason for it,
> would it be okay to remove it during installation and compress the *.tex
> files as well?

Ping.  Is this okay to apply to master?