Package managers like to compress man-pages on their own,
because the type of compression for man-pages is user-configurable.
In particular, Gentoo [1] doesn't want packages to compress their man-pages.
Gentoo Portage has workarounds for this,
but this is not specified in Package Manager Specification and
results in extra compression-decompression pass.
RPM also compresses man-pages itself (in brp-compress)
(and similarly recompresses them as needed)
rather than relying on packages to install compressed man-pages.
Automake can handle installation of man-pages without the explicit "install" target,
so use the standard automake-provided way of installing man-pages.
It's also smart enough to package nload.1.in automatically.
Don't specify an explicit man-page extension in .spec file as recommended by Fedora.
Package managers like to compress man-pages on their own, because the type of compression for man-pages is user-configurable. In particular, Gentoo [1] doesn't want packages to compress their man-pages. Gentoo Portage has workarounds for this, but this is not specified in Package Manager Specification and results in extra compression-decompression pass.
RPM also compresses man-pages itself (in
brp-compress) (and similarly recompresses them as needed) rather than relying on packages to install compressed man-pages.Automake can handle installation of man-pages without the explicit "install" target, so use the standard automake-provided way of installing man-pages. It's also smart enough to package
nload.1.inautomatically.Don't specify an explicit man-page extension in .spec file as recommended by Fedora.
[1] https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/9543#issuecomment-415662844