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    <youpi> oh my, disabling gzip/bzip2 support makes apt preconfigure hang
    <youpi> support in exec* I meant

    <youpi> now a funny bug: if I disable gzip/bzip2 support from exec
    <youpi> trying to run a zero-byte file hangs

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May want to have a look at using BFD / libiberty/simpleobject.