Bug#790932: lintian: Test for UPX compression of binaries does not work
On 2015-07-03 16:45, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>, 2015-07-03, 08:55:
>> I am split between fixing the code (making it use "strings" and
>> running it in a check) vs just dropping it, given it hasn't worked for
>> at least 2 years (and likely more).
>
> AFAICT binaries compressed with UPX trigger statically-linked-binary,
> which should be enough to gain attention of most maintainers.
>
> But OTOH I'm curious if we have any UPX-compressed binaries currently in
> the archive. ;>
>
There is only one possible contender for this according to dak
* ecere-sdk: upx-ucl
~Niels
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