Re: [devel-ref] author/homepage in description

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@wiggy.net>]

Previously Mike Dresser wrote:
> Isn't Packages compressed when apt-get downloads it?  Looking at woody's
> Packages.gz, it's compressed about 5:1, so I would expect this new
> homepage tag to compress at least equally well, turning this into a 100kb
> expansion.

Depends on the dselect method I think, but the most popular one by far
(apt) indeeds uses the compressed version.

Wichert.

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