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gcc / gcc/maintainer-scripts

Date

2026-09-12

Author

Gerald Pfeifer

Commit

9a698ac1bdabbb0420465959203f5fd3fd261b8f

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github

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project: gcc
subsystem: gcc/maintainer-scripts
patch_id: —
commit_hash: 9a698ac1bdabbb0420465959203f5fd3fd261b8f
source_type: github
headline: Stop generating redundant compressed PDF documentation.
tldr: PDF documentation will no longer be additionally gzipped.
author: Gerald Pfeifer
outcome: committed
performance_win: false
breaking_change: false
series_id: —
series_parts: []
tags: • documentation
• maintainer-scripts
discussion_id_link: —
bugzilla_pr: —
url: https://github.com/gcc-mirror/gcc/commit/9a698ac1bdabbb0420465959203f5fd3fd261b8f
date: 2026-09-12T00:00:00.000Z

The maintainer script update_web_docs_git has been modified to stop generating .pdf.gz files. Since PDF files are already compressed, applying gzip compression provides minimal benefit and is redundant. This change streamlines the documentation generation process.