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author | Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> | 2018-10-19 10:24:46 +0200 |
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committer | Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> | 2018-10-20 13:16:28 +0300 |
commit | e8232c7825fdb3783ffa84e90f3ab8f2224a1399 (patch) | |
tree | 8df75e076d71065e92db84cb59083d2a625debaf /docs/markdown/snippets | |
parent | 066060e8c9402b3ae510de7fbddeeb3b528247c9 (diff) | |
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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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diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/manpage_compression.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/manpage_compression.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8c96807 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/manpage_compression.md @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +## 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. |