Bug#112090: PROPOSAL]: support reduced footprint debs at build time

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>]

Previously David Kimdon wrote:
> The purpose of this change is to give Debian a more elegant way of
> handling reduced footprint debs.   Rather than including
> special-purpose binaries in the archive (the status quo), I suggest we
> support hooks in source packages that produce size optimized versions.

Euhm, you serious expect the installer to be able to compile itself
during an install?

Wichert.

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