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

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/mesonbuild/backend/backends.py b/mesonbuild/backend/backends.py
index f12b357..3478be6 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/backend/backends.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/backend/backends.py
@@ -1085,7 +1085,7 @@ class Backend:
                 if subdir is None:
                     subdir = os.path.join(manroot, 'man' + num)
                 srcabs = f.absolute_path(self.environment.get_source_dir(), self.environment.get_build_dir())
-                dstabs = os.path.join(subdir, os.path.basename(f.fname) + '.gz')
+                dstabs = os.path.join(subdir, os.path.basename(f.fname))
                 i = [srcabs, dstabs, m.get_custom_install_mode()]
                 d.man.append(i)
 
diff --git a/mesonbuild/minstall.py b/mesonbuild/minstall.py
index b65abe0..7a2af30 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/minstall.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/minstall.py
@@ -379,17 +379,7 @@ class Installer:
             outdir = os.path.dirname(outfilename)
             d.dirmaker.makedirs(outdir, exist_ok=True)
             install_mode = m[2]
-            if outfilename.endswith('.gz') and not full_source_filename.endswith('.gz'):
-                with open(outfilename, 'wb') as of:
-                    with open(full_source_filename, 'rb') as sf:
-                        # Set mtime and filename for reproducibility.
-                        with gzip.GzipFile(fileobj=of, mode='wb', filename='', mtime=0) as gz:
-                            gz.write(sf.read())
-                shutil.copystat(full_source_filename, outfilename)
-                print('Installing %s to %s' % (full_source_filename, outdir))
-                append_to_log(self.lf, outfilename)
-            else:
-                self.do_copyfile(full_source_filename, outfilename)
+            self.do_copyfile(full_source_filename, outfilename)
             set_mode(outfilename, install_mode, d.install_umask)
 
     def install_headers(self, d):