Guus Sliepen wrote: > Another option nobody mentioned is not doing the byte-swapping in a > postinst script in-place, but rather have the original file installed > with a different filename than intended, and in the postinst script make > a copy to the final destination and byte-swap if necessary.
That would result in two copies of the (likely large) data on end-user systems, which seems far worse than having two copies in the Debian archive. - Josh Triplett
