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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. |