Re: Binary patching .deb files

["Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@cs.msu.su>]

> On Saturday 04 September 2004 07:25 pm, Andrew Suffield wrote:
>> Plus, even if you can get it into the archive, it's not all that
>> useful. The user would need a copy of the previous .deb file. They
>> might still have it, but there's a pretty good chance that they don't.
> 
>   Yeah, that's what I meant.  Shoulda been clearer.  Basically, there are
>   a
> whole raft of practical problems in terms of which and how many diffs to
> keep
> around.  You have the same problems with Packages files (I think people
> suggest distributing patches to Packages even more often).

I would love to use such tools to reduce traffic needed to keep local mirror
up-to-date.