debhelper always compresses NEWS files, even if they are small.
-usr/share/doc/${env:COMMON_PKG}/${env:NEWS_MAYBE_GZ} usr/share/doc/${env:SHARED_PKG}/${env:NEWS_MAYBE_GZ}
+usr/share/doc/${env:COMMON_PKG}/NEWS.gz usr/share/doc/${env:SHARED_PKG}/NEWS.gz
usr/share/doc/${env:COMMON_PKG}/${env:README_MD_MAYBE_GZ} usr/share/doc/${env:SHARED_PKG}/${env:README_MD_MAYBE_GZ}
-usr/share/doc/${env:COMMON_PKG}/${env:NEWS_MAYBE_GZ} usr/share/doc/${env:BIN_PKG}/${env:NEWS_MAYBE_GZ}
+usr/share/doc/${env:COMMON_PKG}/NEWS.gz usr/share/doc/${env:BIN_PKG}/NEWS.gz
usr/share/doc/${env:COMMON_PKG}/${env:README_MD_MAYBE_GZ} usr/share/doc/${env:BIN_PKG}/${env:README_MD_MAYBE_GZ}
-usr/share/doc/${env:COMMON_PKG}/${env:NEWS_MAYBE_GZ} usr/share/doc/${env:DEV_PKG}/${env:NEWS_MAYBE_GZ}
+usr/share/doc/${env:COMMON_PKG}/NEWS.gz usr/share/doc/${env:DEV_PKG}/NEWS.gz
usr/share/doc/${env:COMMON_PKG}/${env:README_MD_MAYBE_GZ} usr/share/doc/${env:DEV_PKG}/${env:README_MD_MAYBE_GZ}
# files larger than 4k in size will be compressed by dh_compress
# so append a .gz suffix to avoid dangling symlinks
-export NEWS_MAYBE_GZ := NEWS$(shell find -maxdepth 1 -size +4k -name NEWS -exec echo ".gz" \;)
export README_MD_MAYBE_GZ := README.md$(shell find -maxdepth 1 -size +4k -name README.md -exec echo ".gz" \;)
# macro computing the list of 'debian/<pkg>.*" files which have a