[Bug 193183] [STAGE] net/beacon: Request MAINTAINERship, pkg-descr cleanup

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--- Comment #26 from John Marino <marino at FreeBSD.org> ---
(In reply to C Hutchinson from comment #25)
> (In reply to John Marino from comment #23)
> > can you tell use what perllocal.pod.gz does and why we need it?
> > Or why it's bad that it's compressed instead of plain text?
> > 
> > Why do we care about this file?
> 
> I (we) don't. But check-plist, and the port do. :)


This is a completely bogus answer.
If I don't want perllocal.pod.gz in the port, then I simply remove it in the
post-install target.  I'm not forced to keep it.

As the maintainer, you should know exactly why this file is needed, or if it's
needed.  If it's not, then just remove it and be done with it.


> I only learned about MANCOMPRESSED from the porters documentation, when
> I ran up against this issue. However. I became frustrated, when it
> didn't work as anticipated/documented. It wasn't until I discovered
> that the documentation omitted compress-man: as a prerequisite. That
> it worked as intended.

I have never ever seen "compress-man" before.  I've never used it.  The
documentation omits it because you aren't supposed to use it is my guess.  If I
haven't seen it before, where are you getting told to use it?

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