Package: upx-ucl
Version: 3.00-1
Severity: normal

I compress kernels for a project I work with and I noticed that v3.00
compresses worse than v2.03 (~5k worse)

/usr/src/linux$ upx-ucl -f -9 bzImage       
                       Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
  Copyright (C) 1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006,2007
UPX 3.00        Markus Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar & John Reiser   Apr 27th
2007

        File size         Ratio      Format      Name
   --------------------   ------   -----------   -----------
    908856 ->    855959   94.18%  bvmlinuz/386   bzImage                       

Packed 1 file.
/usr/src/linux$ cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage
bzImage
/usr/src/linux$ upx-ucl -f -9 bzImage            
                       Ultimate Packer for eXecutables
    Copyright (C) 1996,1997,1998,1999,2000,2001,2002,2003,2004,2005,2006
UPX 2.03        Markus Oberhumer, Laszlo Molnar & John Reiser    Nov 7th
2006

        File size         Ratio      Format      Name
   --------------------   ------   -----------   -----------
    908856 ->    850986   93.63%  bvmlinuz/386   bzImage                       

Packed 1 file.
/usr/src/linux$

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages upx-ucl depends on:
ii  libc6                   2.5-10           GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.2-20070609-1 GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6              4.2-20070609-1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libucl1                 1.03-2           Portable compression library - run
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3-13       compression library - runtime

upx-ucl recommends no packages.

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