Bug#372712: apt: Shouldn't download pdiffs in all cases

[Mike Hommey <mh+reportbug@glandium.org>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.6.44
Severity: wishlist


When you don't apt-get update for a while, downloading all the pdiffs
instead of the full file is actually much longer. There should be a limit
of days without update after which apt would get the full file and not the
pdiffs.

PS: Is there a way to totally disable the pdiff stuff ? With decent
bandwidth, it actually takes more times than downloading the full file...
(Or is the goal to reduce the bandwitdh on the server side ?)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-686
Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ja_JP.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-7    GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                       1:4.1.0-3  GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                    4.1.0-3    The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

Versions of packages apt recommends:
ii  debian-archive-keyring        2006.01.18 GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a

-- no debconf information