On Tue, Aug 07, 2018 at 04:09:57PM +0200, David Sterba wrote: > On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 04:54:31PM -0400, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > Build systems do not typically compress man pages when installing them. > > This is generally left to distro packaging mechanisms, which may end up > > recompressing them using a different compressor. > > Makes sense. I've tested this on openSUSE and there's a post-build step > that indeed recompresses the manual pages. It does not work for me here > with the uncompressed pages yet for some reason, also the symlinked > pages would need to be reworked to the manual page links, but that can > be fixed. > > I'll queue this patch for a major release, expecting that some breakage > might happen. Thanks. FYI, the patches are now in devel. Expected release is in 4.18.
