> > This would save a little bit of archive disk space in the process. > > > > However, considering it is only one package effected(?), I am not sure it > > is worth the effort. > > Ideally we might someday have a facility for this, allowing different Debian > package maintainers (and even end users) to build packages for variants > based on the same source. newt and newt-utf8 could have been built from the same source. regards, junichi