To double-check that this wasn't buildd chroot-specific, I grabbed the current oneiric-amd64 chroot from launchpad, and replicated an identical lp-buildd build on my local laptop. In my local tests, the manpages were compressed correctly (where "correctly" means "the same as i386"), so this really does look like it might be hardware specific.
To double-check that this wasn't buildd chroot-specific, I grabbed the current oneiric-amd64 chroot from launchpad, and replicated an identical lp-buildd build on my local laptop. In my local tests, the manpages were compressed correctly (where "correctly" means "the same as i386"), so this really does look like it might be hardware specific.