Re: These new diffs are great, but...
* Mike Hommey:
>> The fix is to combine the diffs before applying them, so that you only
>> need one process the large Packages file once. I happen to have ML
>> code which does this (including the conversion to a patch
>> representation which is more amenable to this kind of optimization)
>> and would be willing to port it to C++, but someone else would need to
>> deal with the APT integration because I'm not familiar with its
>> architecture.
>
> You're looking for combinediff in the patchutils package.
combinediff doesn't work for the ed patches used by APT.
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