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Date:      Mon, 08 Sep 2014 13:09:45 +0000
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To:        freebsd-ports-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   [Bug 193183] [STAGE] net/beacon: Request MAINTAINERship, pkg-descr cleanup
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--- Comment #18 from John Marino <marino@FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to C Hutchinson from comment #15)
> (In reply to Kubilay Kocak from comment #14)
> >  * I believe MANCOMPRESSED only applies when using INSTALL_MAN
> >  * I don't believe MANCOMPRESSED needs and can used within a target
> >  * It also defaults to no (according to Mk/bsd.port.mk)
> > 
> > But more important, MANCOMPRESSED doesn't do anything anymore. You can
> > remove it.

> Far be it, for _me_ to come off as any sort of expert on all this.
> But I spent quite some time researching, and testing against
> MANCOMPRESSED. I found without my additional entry
> 
> compress-man:
> MANCOMPRESSED=    no
> 
> the plist line
> perllocal.pod
> 
> became orphaned, and the addition of perllocal.pod.gz, also
> became a problem. I found that adding the compress-man:
> resolved this, and I no longer received complaints from
> make(1) check-plist.


Kubilay is correct.  Regardless of what check-plist is says (and we already
know that it gives misleading information and some things that successfully
shut it up are wrong), MANCOMPRESSED should not be used.

What about just removing perllocal.pod from the pkg-plist?  why do we need it?

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