Bug 619916 (doman-compressed)

Summary:	[TRACKER] doman/newman on compressed files
Product:	Quality Assurance	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Trackers	Assignee:	Gentoo Quality Assurance Team <qa>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	sam
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	Tracker
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://github.com/pkgcore/pkgcheck/issues/477
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	619920, 619922, 619924, 619928, 619930, 619932, 619934, 619936, 619938, 619940, 619942, 619946, 619948, 619950, 619952, 619954, 619956, 619958, 619960, 619962, 619964, 619966, 619968, 619970, 619972, 619974, 619976, 619978, 619980, 619982
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Description Michał Górny archtester

2017-05-28 08:48:22 UTC

The PMS doesn't cover automatic decompression of man pages; plus, it doesn't even cover the possibility of them being passed compressed to doman/newman in the first place. The end result is that a call like:

  doman foo.1.gz

may end up installing the file in /usr/share/man/mangz.