Re: FYI: dh_upx compresses i386 executables

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 09:00:13AM -0400, Itai Zukerman wrote:
>> 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

Not if UPX were to be an option for all binaries. Having to add stuff to
every package's postinst is evil (see /usr/doc, although that was
necessary).

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]