On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 03:45:48PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > 2008/5/13 Jens Seidel <jensseidel@users.sf.net>: > > > Ah, you want to compress is during package build, not in upstream > > source? I think it should be done from upstream as a few bytes saved is > > not a good reason to delay a package build. But it is very effective for > > a package why not, depends on the requires time and the costs ... > > Yup. It should be conceptually an equivalent to strip, but for arch > indep data. It shouldn't be mandatory to repackage upstream source, we > all know the benefits of keeping upstream source as untouched as > possible. > > I think the proper place to do so would be in debian/rules. The only > downside effect I see it that it will be more costly to build the > package, but then again, it would only be once for all the > architectures, and it will usually be really done by the uploader, as > I don't think any autobuilder will need to remake it ever again. Can we imagine a debhelper script for that like dh_pngcompress? Cheers, Gonéri
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