Bug#37525: Packages.bz2 support would save bandwidth

[Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@canonical.com>]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 07:29:24PM +0100, Holger Spielmann wrote:
> Hello,
Hi,
 
> support for bzip2 compressed package lists would save a non-trivial
> amount of bandwith. Packages.bz2 is usually 20..30% smaller than
> Packages.gz, same applies to Sources.[gz|bz2]
[..]

There is a patch ready that just needs a bit more testing. It will
check for Packages.bz2 and fallback to Packages.gz if that is not
available. The patch is available at
https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/attachment.cgi?id=767 

I'm sure it will be merged soon.

bye,
 Michael



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