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Uncompress man page? #499

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simonvanderveldt opened this issue Nov 26, 2018 · 2 comments
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Uncompress man page? #499

simonvanderveldt opened this issue Nov 26, 2018 · 2 comments

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@simonvanderveldt
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simonvanderveldt commented Nov 26, 2018

First of all, thanks for this piece of software, very useful! 馃憤

Whilst packaging syncthing-gtk for gentoo I got this QA warning:

 * One or more compressed files were found in docompress-ed directories.
 * Please fix the ebuild not to install compressed files (manpages,
 * documentation) when automatic compression is used:
 * 
 *   /usr/share/man/man1/syncthing-gtk.1.gz

When looking at the code I noticed that the man page is stored as .gz file in this repo instead of being plain text. Is there any particular reason it's done that way? Normally one doesn't commit binaries into git/version control.
Anyway, would it be possible/OK to change the man page to just be plain text?
I believe normally the package manager will do the compression anyway, so no need to do that upfront.

[edit] Btw. I can also make sure it doesn't get compressed when packaging to prevent this QA warning, but imho it makes more sense to store the manpage as plaintext.

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kozec commented Nov 29, 2018

I don't really remember why was it compressed in 1st place, so I'll just uncompressed it in next release and check what will go wrong.

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kozec commented Nov 29, 2018

... or I do it right now so I don't forget about it.

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