Re: Byte swapped /usr/share?

[Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>]

Guus Sliepen wrote:
> Another option nobody mentioned is not doing the byte-swapping in a
> postinst script in-place, but rather have the original file installed
> with a different filename than intended, and in the postinst script make
> a copy to the final destination and byte-swap if necessary.

That would result in two copies of the (likely large) data on end-user
systems, which seems far worse than having two copies in the Debian
archive.

- Josh Triplett