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Re: big Packages.gz file



> On 2001-01-05, Brian May <bam@debian.org> wrote:
> > What do large packages have to do with the size of the index file,
> > Packages?

Andreas Fuchs <asf@acm.org> wrote:
> They waste one byte per multiple of 10 bytes of package size. (-;

You mean one byte per order of magnitude of package size. ;)

> Bad joke? So sue me.

Yes, very bad. I couldn't resist correcting, which makes me at least as bad.
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