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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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+## Manpages are no longer compressed implicitly
+
+Earlier, the `install_man` command has automatically compressed installed
+manpages into `.gz` format. This collided with manpage compression hooks
+already used by various distributions. Now, manpages are installed uncompressed
+and distributors are expected to handle compressing them according to their own
+compression preferences.