Bug#1054043: texlive: Texlive updates are too large
>> Stefan "dreaming of Debian updates as efficient as
>> `git fetch` :-)"
> You are not the first one, who complains and (probably) not the last
> one. Due to the limited man power in the team, we simply copy the
> packaging scheme given by TeX Live upstream and this is what you
> see here.
Indeed, I think the "fix" should probably be in the generic Debian
infrastructure rather than in any specific (set of) packages.
At most, the package maintainers might need to activate a special flag
telling that delta-encoding this package should be done by default.
> I'm aware of an idea called debdelta[1], maybe it is helpful for you.
Oh, that's indeed very interesting. I hadn't heard of it yet.
It's very close to what I was thinking Debian should do.
And now I wonder why this is not better integrated into Debian so it's
used by default for packages like `texlive-fonts-extra`.
It could reduce the bandwidth load on Debian servers and even
potentially reduce the disk space used as well (if some .deb are deleted
in favor of deltas).
Stefan
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