On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 13:09 +0100, Joe Orton wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 12:49:28AM -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > > * Remove brp-compress calls from all packages, as it isn't doing > > anything useful. (Right?) > > I think it was necessary for packages with a generated filelist since it > ensures the man pages get gzipped *before* creating the filelist. If > they get gzipped after %install the filelist is out of sync with the > install root. Good point, I completely forgot about this (I've not used filelists like this in a loooong time). So brp-compress shouldn't be blindly removed.