--- a/Po4aBuilder.pm
+++ b/Po4aBuilder.pm
@@ -233,7 +233,6 @@
         }
         $parser->parse_from_file ($file, $out);
 
-        system("gzip -9 -f $out") and die;
         unlink "$file" || die;
     }
 
@@ -245,7 +244,6 @@
         if ($file =~ m,(.*/man(.))/([^/]*)\.xml$,) {
             my ($outdir, $section, $outfile) = ($1, $2, $3);
             system("xsltproc -o $outdir/$outfile.$section --nonet http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl $file") and die;
-            system ("gzip -9 -f $outdir/$outfile.$section") and die;
         }
         unlink "$file" || die;
     }