Bug#779063: exim4-daemon-light: file size tripled with no apparent reason

[Andreas Metzler]

Control: tags 779063 confirmed

On 2015-02-24 Uwe Storbeck <uwe at ibr.ch> wrote:
[...]
> the installed size of package exim4-daemon-light on amd64 has
> increased from 1287 to 3268 between versions 4.84-7 and 4.84-8
> without any apparent reason in the changelog:
[...]
> The file size of the exim4 binary has more than tripled between
> the two package versions:
> -rwsr-xr-x root/root   1031104 2015-02-07 16:40 ./usr/sbin/exim4
> -rwsr-xr-x root/root   3124160 2015-02-17 18:45 ./usr/sbin/exim4
[...]

Hello,

you are right, and it is even reproducible. The only explanation I can
think of is that some part of the toolchain runs amok after addition
of the two patches.

cu Andreas

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