HEADS UP: bzip2(1) compression for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 04:13:07AM +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> This is just an announcement that I'm going to add bzip2(1)
> support to man(1) and makewhatis(1) (catman(1) already has
> it), and then switch the default compression method from
> gzip(1) to bzip2(1), for manpages, Groff and Texinfo docs.
> (The latest 4.5 texinfo supports bzip2.)

I believe this will break the ports collection, which expect (and
handles specially) gzipped manpages.

kris
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