#1074083 create .../man/man<n>/<uncompressed files>

Package:
man-db
Source:
man-db
Description:
tools for reading manual pages
Submitter:
Bjarni Ingi Gislason
Date:
2024-06-24 10:21:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1074083#5
Date:
2024-06-23 01:31:41 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

  The "cat<n>" directories are empty on my computer so there is no saving
there.

  I could use uncompressed man pages for general use,
so I suggest that should be provided if the user wants that.

  Nowadays computers usually have abundant disk place,
and only use a part of the provided software and thus only a part of the
provided man pages by a operation system.

#1074083#10
Date:
2024-06-24 10:16:47 UTC
From:
To:
Control: reassign -1 debian-policy

Providing uncompressed manual pages would be a matter for Debian policy,
not for man-db, so I'm reassigning this there.

However, I must say that I am not in favour.  Since man-db decompresses
pages in-process, there's negligible performance advantage (possibly a
performance disadvantage in some cases), and the benefit is unlikely to
be worth the effort.