[Pkg-cups-devel] Bug#473708: manpages with gz extension not gzipped

[Corey Wright]

Package: cupsys
Version: 1.3.6-3
Severity: minor

# what file should output for a gzip compressed file
$ echo test | gzip >test.gz
$ file test.gz 
test.gz: gzip compressed data, from Unix, last modified: Mon Mar 31
22:48:38 2008

# what file outputs for supposedly gzip compressed cupsys manpages
$ dpkg -L cupsys-{bsd,client} | grep /man/.*.gz$ | xargs file 
/usr/share/man/man1/lprm.1.gz:        troff or preprocessor input text
/usr/share/man/man1/lpq.1.gz:         troff or preprocessor input text
/usr/share/man/man1/lpr.1.gz:         troff or preprocessor input text
/usr/share/man/man8/cups-lpd.8.gz:    troff or preprocessor input text
/usr/share/man/man8/lpc.8.gz:         troff or preprocessor input text
/usr/share/man/man1/lpoptions.1.gz:   troff or preprocessor input text
/usr/share/man/man1/lp.1.gz:          troff or preprocessor input text
/usr/share/man/man1/lppasswd.1.gz:    troff or preprocessor input text
/usr/share/man/man1/cupstestppd.1.gz: troff or preprocessor input text
/usr/share/man/man1/cupstestdsc.1.gz: troff or preprocessor input text
/usr/share/man/man1/cancel.1.gz:      troff or preprocessor input text
/usr/share/man/man1/lpstat.1.gz:      troff or preprocessor input text
/usr/share/man/man5/client.conf.5.gz: troff or preprocessor input text
/usr/share/man/man5/client.conf.5.gz: troff or preprocessor input text
/usr/share/man/man8/lpadmin.8.gz:     troff or preprocessor input text
/usr/share/man/man8/cupsaddsmb.8.gz:  troff or preprocessor input text
/usr/share/man/man8/lpinfo.8.gz:      troff or preprocessor input text
/usr/share/man/man8/lpmove.8.gz:      troff or preprocessor input text
/usr/share/man/man8/accept.8.gz:      troff or preprocessor input text
/usr/share/man/man8/cupsenable.8.gz:  troff or preprocessor input text
/usr/share/man/man8/cupsctl.8.gz:     troff or preprocessor input text

# current package versions
$ dpkg -l cupsys-{bsd,client}
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err:
|uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  cupsys-bsd     1.3.6-3        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD comman
ii  cupsys-client  1.3.6-3        Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client pro

# current architecture
$ dpkg --print-architecture
i386

# build output of amd64 architecture

$ wget -q -O- 'http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=cupsys;ver=1.3.6-3;arch=
amd64;stamp=1206187889' | grep lprm
Compiling lprm.c...
Linking lprm...
Compressing lprm.man... 50.4%
<snip>

so, the problem might be limited to i386 (or, more specifically, the
uploader's build environment) as it appears to have been built correctly on
the amd64 buildd.

i gave this a severity of "minor" because it doesn't man (the presumed
primary use of the manpages), but it causes man2html (and probably other
applications, but i only noticed the problem reviewing the output of
man2html's weekly cron job) problems.

thanks for maintaining cups!

corey
-- 
undefined at pobox.com

--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.22-3-vserver-k7

Debian Release: lenny/sid
  990 testing         localhost 
   99 undefined       localhost 

--- Package information. ---
Depends                             (Version) | Installed
=============================================-+-================
adduser                                       | 3.106
cupsys-common                                 | 1.3.6-2
debconf                           (>= 1.2.9)  | 1.5.20
 OR debconf-2.0                               | 
ghostscript                                   | 
 OR gs-esp                                    | 8.15.3.dfsg.1-1
libavahi-compat-libdnssd1         (>= 0.6.13) | 0.6.22-2
libc6                              (>= 2.7-1) | 2.7-6
libcupsimage2                      (>= 1.3.0) | 1.3.6-2
libcupsys2                         (>= 1.3.4) | 1.3.6-2
libdbus-1-3                        (>= 1.1.1) | 1.1.20-1
libgnutls26                      (>= 2.2.0-0) | 2.2.2-1
libkrb53                      (>= 1.6.dfsg.2) | 1.6.dfsg.3~beta1-4
libldap-2.4-2                      (>= 2.4.7) | 2.4.7-6.1
libpam0g                        (>= 0.99.7.1) | 0.99.7.1-6
libpaper1                                     | 1.1.23
libslp1                                       | 1.2.1-7.1
lsb-base                               (>= 3) | 3.1-24
perl-modules                                  | 5.8.8-12
poppler-utils                                 | 
 OR xpdf-utils                                | 3.02-1.3
procps                                        | 1:3.2.7-6
ssl-cert                          (>= 1.0.11) | 1.0.16