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debian-news-file-not-compressed

All reports of debian-news-file-not-compressed for the archive. The extended description of this tag is:

NEWS.Debian files should be compressed using "gzip -9". The file must always have the same name.

Refer to Debian Developer's Reference section 6.3.4 (Supplementing changelogs with NEWS.Debian files) for details.

Severity: normal, Certainty: certain

Check: changelog-file, Type: binary

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