From e8232c7825fdb3783ffa84e90f3ab8f2224a1399 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Micha=C5=82=20G=C3=B3rny?= Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2018 10:24:46 +0200 Subject: 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 --- docs/markdown/snippets/manpage_compression.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/markdown/snippets/manpage_compression.md (limited to 'docs/markdown/snippets') 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. -- cgit v1.1