Re: FYI: dh_upx compresses i386 executables
On Sunday 22 April 2001 00:45, Itai Zukerman wrote:
> Why not compress the binaries in the postinst, maybe after asking the
> admin for permission?
Well, if I had to answer "no" to compression for binary in every new package
I installed, I'd go nuts rather soon. If, however, it was made the
responsibility of the system somehow, packagers needn't worry of it at all,
users only had to answer once, and whoever had to implement had to do the
work, and nobody had to duplicate it, allowing him to feel nice about himself.
Of course, another option is to forget it altogether, an options which I'm in
favour of, but this should resemble a democracy, so including it as a
one-time option would be "nice".
> That should take care of lintian errors.
If the installing program (dpkg) somehow handled the compression (if so
wished), this wouldn't be a problem.
Regards
Kenneth
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