TODO: Comment about making making indirect objects

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+* Make it easier to deal with objects that should be indirect. Search
+  for makeIndirectObject in the code to find patterns. For example, it
+  would be nice to have a one-liner for the case of one or all
+  dictionary values or array items being replaced with an indirect
+  objects if direct. Maybe we want a version of copyForeignObject that
+  takes the foreign qpdf and converts the source object to indirect
+  before copying, though maybe we don't because it could cause
+  multiple copies to be made...usually it's better to handle that
+  explicitly.
 
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