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Nuitka UPX plugin can't handle NotCompressibleException

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Nuitka can’t handle NotCompressibleException When UPX detect low compresion ratio, it may throw NotCompressibleException 157877697-dd3bcfc9-b397-48fe-9667-8dfd260899f6

Nuitka-Plugins:INFO: upx: Uncached file, compressing 'api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll' may take a while.
upx: C:\Users\home\Desktop\Python\1\Yashmak.dist\api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll: NotCompressibleException
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\nuitka\__main__.py", line 137, in <module>
    main()
  File "C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\nuitka\__main__.py", line 123, in main
    MainControl.main()
  File "C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\nuitka\MainControl.py", line 963, in main
    copyDllsUsed(
  File "C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\nuitka\freezer\Standalone.py", line 1433, in copyDllsUsed
    Plugins.onCopiedDLLs(dist_dir=dist_dir, used_dlls=used_dlls)
  File "C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\nuitka\plugins\Plugins.py", line 415, in onCopiedDLLs
    plugin.onCopiedDLL(
  File "C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\nuitka\plugins\standard\UpxPlugin.py", line 122, in onCopiedDLL
    self._compressFile(filename=dll_filename, use_cache=not self.upx_nocache)
  File "C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\nuitka\plugins\standard\UpxPlugin.py", line 102, in _compressFile
    check_call(
  File "C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\site-packages\nuitka\utils\Execution.py", line 141, in check_call
    subprocess.check_call(*popenargs, **kwargs)
  File "C:\Users\Home\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\lib\subprocess.py", line 369, in check_call
    raise CalledProcessError(retcode, cmd)
subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '['C:\\Users\\Home\\Desktop\\Python\\upx.exe', '-q', '--no-progress', 'C:\\Users\\home\\Desktop\\Python\\1\\Yashmak.dist\\api-ms-win-crt-runtime-l1-1-0.dll']' returned non-zero exit status 1.