On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > The upstream sources for xplot contain a pre-compiled i386 binary (in > case users don't want to compile themselves). The binary is not relevant > to Debian: > > $ ldd xplot > libforms.so.0.81 => /usr/local/lib/libforms.so.0.81 (0x4000b000) > libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x4006c000) > libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x4010a000) > libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x40113000) > > It takes up a whole 1.2 MB. Is is okay to delete it?
In fact, I think this should be considered a bug that should be forwarded upstream. In general, a source tarball should not contain any architecture-specific binaries. If the author wants to distribute binaries anyway, you may suggest him/her to do it by using a different tar file. -- "d1fd9b57fdd9ec32a11f40bc5038df0e" (a truly random sig)
