diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 97d49d0..5921173 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -23,6 +23,10 @@
   [ Jakub Wilk ]
   * which-pkg-broke: Massive speedup due to calling apt-cache less often.
     (Closes: #883896)
+
+  [ Marcel Partap ]
+  * debmany: Support gzip compressed text files even if the pager does not
+    support them. (Closes: #892211)
 
  -- Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>  Sun, 03 Dec 2017 03:28:50 +0100
 
diff --git a/debmany/debmany b/debmany/debmany
index 9996a1a..01fba4b 100755
--- a/debmany/debmany
+++ b/debmany/debmany
@@ -413,7 +413,12 @@
     else
       # other file (usr/share/doc)
       debug "Opening other file: "`printf "$othercmdline" "$PWD/$return"` # comment
-      eval $(printf "$othercmdline" "$PWD/$return")
+      if [[ "$return" =~ \.gz$ ]]
+      then
+              eval $(printf "gzip -dc $PWD/$return | $othercmdline")
+      else
+              eval $(printf "$othercmdline" "$PWD/$return")
+      fi
     fi
   else
     cd "$curdir"