Re: FYI: dh_upx compresses i386 executables
Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> wrote:
> dh_upx is a debhelper extention and is provided by the upx-ucl package.
> dh_upx compresses all binaries (i386 only!) in the mentioned package.
> The idea is similar to gzexe, but upx uses a built-in decompressor,
> installing a new header into executables. It can also compress scripts.
Hmm, perhaps someone should propose a policy to ban the use of this in
all packages.
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