I will note, though, that the guidelines recommend not specifying
the
extension of the manpages in the %files section; you can't guarantee
that gzip will always be the compression format used. That's probably
why more packages never ran into this and why my "random sample" build
tests didn't fail. I need to do a full rebuild before pushing this as
an actual update in any case.
That's a very good point and something I noticed when I was
investigating this; I ended up re-reading that section of the
packaging guidelines. I'll probably check all my packages to make sure
they don't accidentally say ".gz". Assuming the compression always
adds an extension (can't think why that wouldn't be the case?), I'd
have thought that instead of specifying "%{_mandir}/man1/foo.1*" as
the guidelines suggest, it would be safer to specify
"%{_mandir}/man1/foo.1.*" to ensure it doesn't accidentally pick up an
uncompressed file.
Richard
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