meson install isn't supposed to compress manpages anymore, but some are gzipped after it runs, before my build script calls gzip. weird. anyway, something like this ig:
find $DESTDIR/usr/man/man* -type l -a '!' -name '*.gz' |
xargs -I'{}' bash -c 'ln -s $(readlink "{}").gz "{}".gz ; rm "{}"'
