Bug#372504: apt appears to download pdiffs repeatedly

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> writes:

> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.44.1
> Severity: normal
>
> I find it hard to believe that this hasn't been reported already, but I
> couldn't find it anywhere... my "aptitude update" has looked like this since
> pdiff support was turned on:
>
> Get:38 2006-06-04-1349.29.pdiff [248B]
> Get:39 2006-06-04-1349.29.pdiff [248B]
> Get:40 2006-06-04-1349.29.pdiff [248B]
> Get:41 2006-06-05-1427.58.pdiff [898B]
> Get:42 2006-06-05-1427.58.pdiff [898B]
> Get:43 2006-06-05-1427.58.pdiff [898B]
> Get:44 2006-06-04-1349.29.pdiff [15.1kB]
> Get:45 2006-06-04-1349.29.pdiff [15.1kB]
> Get:46 2006-06-04-1349.29.pdiff [15.1kB]
>
> I don't know whether it's actually making an http request for each one of
> those files three times, but it definitely claims to.

Could this be main, contrib and non-free? The file size does look
suspiciously identical though.

Can you check with tcpdump or strace?

MfG
        Goswin