[PATCH cygport] dodoc: Skip a file if a compressed version already exists

[Jon Turney]

On 01/03/2024 13:13, Christian Franke via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> It IMO makes sense to compress large and rarely viewed doc files like 
> change logs. This seems to be common practice on Debian etc.
> 
> With current cygport, the following results in ChangeLog and 
> ChangeLog.gz in the docdir:
> 
> src_install()
> {
>    ...
>    dodoc ChangeLog
>    gzip -9 -n "${D}/usr/share/doc/${PN}/ChangeLog"
> }

Uh, I don't quite see how this patch will change the behavior of this 
fragment.

Even more confusing, why isn't this already doing what you want? Unless 
you specify -k/--keep to gzip, the input file is removed, right?

> The attached patch fixes this and also adds some missing documentation.

I applied the documentation change as that is obviously needed.