668524 – dev-util/meson: implicitly forces .gz compression of manpages

Bug 668524 - dev-util/meson: implicitly forces .gz compression of manpages

Summary: dev-util/meson: implicitly forces .gz compression of manpages

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	William Hubbs

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Reported:	2018-10-13 18:12 UTC by Michał Górny
Modified:	2018-12-12 15:13 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

See Also:	https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/issues/4330
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Description Michał Górny archtester

2018-10-13 18:12:43 UTC

It seems that meson's 'install_man()' forces compressing manpages to .gz and has no way to disable this behavior.

Looking at mesonbuild/backend/backends.py, the generate_man_install() method forcedly appends '.gz' to all destination filenames, enabling the implicit compression in install target.

Please fix it not to compress manpages, or at least to make it possible to disable it.

Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester

2018-10-14 09:10:02 UTC

Oh, it seems that hanetzer already reported it upstream.

Comment 2 Michał Górny archtester

2018-10-20 10:45:27 UTC

The compression has been removed in master, so hopefully bump to the next release will fix it.

Comment 3 William Hubbs gentoo-dev

2018-12-12 15:13:56 UTC

This is fixed in 0.49.0.