Bug 854267

Summary:	app-text/mandoc bzip2 support
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Markus Peloquin <markus>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	PATCH
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836367
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	mandoc-1.14.6-bzip2.patch mandoc-1.14.6-bzip2.patch

Description Markus Peloquin 2022-06-25 10:59:58 UTC

I veered away from mandb due to the new systemd dependencies and decided mandoc was a good fit. However, it's lack of compression support (except gzip) was a turnoff. Especially rebuilding *everything* with a man page with compression disabled as the wiki suggests...

So I wrote a patch. I'm not sure if this is something we might want to just use, or if I should approach upstream with a less ... patchy version (i.e. use better abstractions).

Let me know!

Comment 1 Markus Peloquin 2022-06-25 11:01:19 UTC

Created attachment 787595 [details, diff]
mandoc-1.14.6-bzip2.patch

Hmm, attachment didn't take the first time

Comment 2 Markus Peloquin 2022-06-25 11:09:39 UTC

Created attachment 787598 [details, diff]
mandoc-1.14.6-bzip2.patch

Fixed a bug, an accidentally deleted line. If only BSD devs used braces...

Comment 3 Sam James archtester

2022-06-26 06:44:03 UTC

man-db doesn't have a systemd dependency.

Anyway, it'd be interesting to know what upstream think -- my recollection is sadly they're not interested, but I might be misremembering.

We did have a bug discussing this recently but I can't find it :(

Comment 4 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2022-06-26 21:19:04 UTC

(In reply to Sam James from comment #3)
> Anyway, it'd be interesting to know what upstream think -- my recollection
> is sadly they're not interested, but I might be misremembering.

I also recall that they are not interested in adding support for additional compression methods.

Comment 5 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2022-06-26 21:24:56 UTC

See bug 836367 comment 7.

Comment 6 Markus Peloquin 2022-06-26 22:53:21 UTC

Hmm, maybe if I make my change good enough, they might accept it...

Comment 7 Markus Peloquin 2022-06-26 22:56:36 UTC

(In reply to Markus Peloquin from comment #6)
> Hmm, maybe if I make my change good enough, they might accept it...

Upon reading Ingo Schwarze's response, I find it unlikely though.

Comment 8 Mike Gilbert gentoo-dev

2022-06-26 23:32:52 UTC

I don't think we are interested in carrying a patch for this.

I would suggest switching back to sys-apps/man-db.