I just imagined to have one additional package. Let's call it nsis-special for the sake of simplicity.

nsis-special would have the following content:
/usr/share/nsis/Special/8kStrings/bzip2_solid-x86-ansi
/usr/share/nsis/Special/8kStrings/bzip2_solid-x86-unicode
/usr/share/nsis/Special/8kStrings/bzip2-x86-ansi
/usr/share/nsis/Special/8kStrings/bzip2-x86-unicode
/usr/share/nsis/Special/8kStrings/lzma_solid-x86-ansi
/usr/share/nsis/Special/8kStrings/lzma_solid-x86-unicode
/usr/share/nsis/Special/8kStrings/lzma-x86-ansi
/usr/share/nsis/Special/8kStrings/lzma-x86-unicode
/usr/share/nsis/Special/8kStrings/uninst
/usr/share/nsis/Special/8kStrings/zlib_solid-x86-ansi
/usr/share/nsis/Special/8kStrings/zlib_solid-x86-unicode
/usr/share/nsis/Special/8kStrings/zlib-x86-ansi
/usr/share/nsis/Special/8kStrings/zlib-x86-unicode
/usr/share/nsis/Special/Logging/bzip2_solid-x86-ansi
/usr/share/nsis/Special/Logging/bzip2_solid-x86-unicode
/usr/share/nsis/Special/Logging/bzip2-x86-ansi
/usr/share/nsis/Special/Logging/bzip2-x86-unicode
/usr/share/nsis/Special/Logging/lzma_solid-x86-ansi
/usr/share/nsis/Special/Logging/lzma_solid-x86-unicode
/usr/share/nsis/Special/Logging/lzma-x86-ansi
/usr/share/nsis/Special/Logging/lzma-x86-unicode
/usr/share/nsis/Special/Logging/uninst
/usr/share/nsis/Special/Logging/zlib_solid-x86-ansi
/usr/share/nsis/Special/Logging/zlib_solid-x86-unicode
/usr/share/nsis/Special/Logging/zlib-x86-ansi
/usr/share/nsis/Special/Logging/zlib-x86-unicode
plus some documentation what it is and how to use it.

This package provides the stubs of the special builds (namely "Advanced logging" and "Large strings") as described on the NSIS Special Build web page (https://nsis.sourceforge.io/Special_Builds).

I would prefer to be consistent with upstream. Therefore I am hesitant adding more stubs (e. g. combination advanced logging and large strings) to the nsis-special package.

More details how I intend to proceed are available at:
https://sourceforge.net/p/nsis/feature-requests/552/

Please provide your feedback. I might have overlooked some things that are important to you.

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