Bug#4137: libpaper contains compressed manpage, or policy should change

To: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>, 4137@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#4137: libpaper contains compressed manpage, or policy should change
From: Dirk.Eddelbuettel@qed.econ.queensu.ca
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 96 08:19 EDT
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  Ian> 2. Either it should not be compressed (see the guidelines) or we
  Ian> should mandate compressed manpages.

In this case the guidelines are of. Bruce waved his hand a while ago and
allowed parallel existence of compressed and uncompressed manpages. 
Some maintainers, yours truly included, started to compress man pages:

edd@miles:~> find /usr/man/ -name \*gz |wc -l
    107  

In this case, the Guidelines need updating.

--
Dirk Eddelb"uttel                             http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/~edd

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