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Re: FYI: dh_upx compresses i386 executables



On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 09:00:13AM -0400, Itai Zukerman wrote:
> 
> If not, I suggest a debhelper command to add the necessary code to
> the postinst.  Packages that use this should, of course, depend on the
> binary-compressing package, which would provide the one-time question

why should they depend on it?  if its not installed that should imply
that the admin does not want compressed binaries.  

> you want.  The postinst code would call the compression routines,
> which might not do anything, depending on how the compressing package
> was configured (i.e., it wouldn't call the compressing code directly,
> but through a wrapper).

makes sense

> Any objections?

see above

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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