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authorMichał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>2018-10-19 10:24:46 +0200
committerJussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>2018-10-20 13:16:28 +0300
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Remove implicit compression of man pages
Remove the code responsible for implicitly compressing manpages as .gz files. It has been established that manpage compression is a distro packager's task, with existing distros already having their own implementations of compression. Fixes #4330
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@@ -909,8 +909,7 @@ An example value could be `['rwxr-sr-x', 'root', 'root']`.
Installs the specified man files from the source tree into system's
man directory during the install step. This directory can be
overridden by specifying it with the `install_dir` keyword
-argument. All man pages are compressed during installation and
-installed with a `.gz` suffix.
+argument.
The `install_mode` argument can be used to specify the file mode in symbolic
format and optionally the owner/uid and group/gid for the installed files.