On 10/18/2009 05:09 PM, Chuck Anderson wrote:
On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 01:50:20PM +0200, Martin Gieseking wrote:
> So my question is: Is it up to the packager to either use
> %{_mandir}/man1/foo.1.gz or %{_mandir}/man1/foo.1*?
Formally, yes, it's up to the packager.
> I couldn't find any
> recommendation on this in the Fedora guidelines.
IMO, * should be used so that if/when we change to bzip2 or xz or
some other compression method you won't have to update spec files.
Agreed.
*.specs which use *.gz will break, should Fedora switch to a
different compression.
... other distros did so many years, ago.
Ralf