Re: FYI: dh_upx compresses i386 executables

[Itai Zukerman <zukerman@math-hat.com>]

On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 06:02:30 -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> 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.  

OK, I believe doc-base and install-docs is handled this way.

Then, later you could install the compressing package and run
dpkg-reconfigure on those packages that you want compressed?

-itai