Bug#673094: debhelper: hardlink auto-gened .placeholder files

Package: debhelper
Version: 9.20120513em1
Severity: wishlist

It would be nice to hardlink all the little .placeholder files when a package ships
more than one of them, such as cron. To save a little bit of space. Alternatively,
the files could be made totally empty, but I don't exect that to happen.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable-grip
  APT policy: (200, 'unstable-grip'), (101, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: armel (armv5tel)

Kernel: Linux 3.4.0-rc4-tomoyo-00002-gf203d42 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  binutils    2.22-6em1
ii  dpkg-dev    1.16.3em1
ii  file        5.11-1em1
ii  html2text   1.3.2a-15em1
ii  man-db      2.6.1-2em1
ii  perl        5.14.2-10em1
ii  po-debconf  1.0.16+nmu2em1

debhelper recommends no packages.

debhelper suggests no packages.

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