619916 – (doman-compressed) [TRACKER] doman/newman on compressed files

Bug 619916 (doman-compressed) - [TRACKER] doman/newman on compressed files

Summary: [TRACKER] doman/newman on compressed files

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	doman-compressed

Product:	Quality Assurance
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Trackers (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Gentoo Quality Assurance Team

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Keywords:	Tracker

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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Reported:	2017-05-28 08:48 UTC by Michał Górny
Modified:	2022-10-18 03:30 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

See Also:	https://github.com/pkgcore/pkgcheck/issues/477
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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.