On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 01:36:36PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > So, I informed the fellow that if he wants UPX to pass lintian he has to get > policy to support it first. The consensus on #debian-devel was that > compressed > binaries is a bad idea for Debian to ship and that this should be a user's > choice. >
I agree, if for no other reason than "least surprise". We don't want our users having to figure out what a compressed binary is, and how to use it. IMO, lintian should complain loudly if it enounters a compressed binary. If he's concered about one example binary in his upx package, then he should override it for that special case. Ben -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
