Bug#919458: lintian: add tag for empty executables

[Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org>]

Christoph,

> Still I think it's a good idea to add the check as suggested.

(It's added in Git, pending upload.)

> Addionally I'd like to suggest to check for zero-size compressed files
> as well since I fail to see why anyone would ship them[1]

Curiously:

  https://lintian.debian.org/tags/zero-byte-file-in-doc-directory.html

… already checks for literally-zero and gzipped zero


Regards,

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