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Re: compressed binaries in packages, for or against?



On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 05:16:59PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> As you see, the object hides as an ELF, yet objdump is confused by it.
> objdump is used by lintian for various pieces of info.

It _is_ ELF. Objdump uses BFD, which doesn't understand ELF programs
which don't have sections. (They aren't needed for an executable.)

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