Re: FYI: dh_upx compresses i386 executables

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

On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 05:30:18 -0800, Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote:
> >   [ -x install-upx ] && install-upx /usr/bin/foo /usr/bin/bar
> > 
> > to her postinst or
> 
> fine
>  
> >   dh_upx
> >
> > to her rules.
> 
> NO! this would absolutly suck.  that leaves the admin in the position
> to have to rebuild the package or fsck with decompression every time
> the package is upgraded to get a fulltime normal non-upx binary if
> they don't want this crap.

I think you misunderstood: I meant that dh_upx would just add the line
above to the postinst, like a number of other debhelper things do.  I
agree that having debs contain compressed binaries is a bad idea.

-itai