Bug#376158: marked as done (Should document apt's new pdiff feature)

[Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org>]

reopen 376158
thanks

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 07:49:24AM -0800, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> I added to the release notes:
> +
> +          <sect1 id="apt-pdiff"><heading>Apt downloads small files with update</heading>
> +          <p>
> +          There has been support added to <prgn>apt</prgn> to download only the difference
> +          between packages files. This is handy for people with bad network connections,
> +          but people having a very nearby mirror want to disable this feature.
> +          One can disable it by adding <tt>Acquire::Pdiffs "false";</tt> to
> +          <file>/etc/apt/apt.conf</file>.
> +          </p>
> +          </sect1>
> 
> Please feel free to reopen this bug report in case you think
> more/different information should be added to the release notes.

Hi.

I think for users using 'stable' only this will make no difference at all,
since they hardly ever have to download a Packages file apart from
the security one.

If such a note is added to the release notes it should probably include
that this is only important for people using testing/unstable in which
case the question is why the release notes for stable should be the
right place to document it :)

Gruesse,
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