individual patches are doubly gzipped?

[Benno Schulenberg]

Hi Thomas,

From http://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/6.2/ I've downloaded the
latest individual patch:
  http://invisible-mirror.net/archives/ncurses/6.2/ncurses-6.2-20200822.patch.gz
plus its .asc file.  But when I run 'gpg --verify nc*.asc', it says:

  gpg: BAD signature from "Thomas Dickey [...]

It results that I have to gunzip the patch.gz file (which results in a binary
file), rename the result to patch.gz, and then 'gpg --verify' will succeed.
Then I have to run gunzip again on the renamed patch thing to get the actual
textual patch file.

Is this double gzipping of these patch files intentional?  If yes, maybe
it would be a good idea to add a small README file to the above mentioned
download folder to explain this?

(This README could also say that it is more economical to download the
dev-patches.zip archive instead, to get all the patches at once, and to
throw away the first patch in the set because it is meant for the preceding
version of ncurses.)

Benno

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