Bug#348971: qa.debian.org: please consider converting PTS to a CSS layout

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* Florian Weimer [Wed, 01 Feb 2006 09:47:59 +0100]:

> * Marc Haber:

> >> With the arrivale of Packages diffs, it's actually rather cheap (in
> >> terms of network bandwidth) to maintain a local mirror of the archive
> >> metadata.  AFAICS, you only need the Sources files, so the disk space
> >> consumption shouldn't be an obstacle, either.

> > Having never really understood the rather sparsely documented apt.conf
> > syntax, I am reluctant to use apt to keep metadata current on a system
> > without root privileges.

> The secure-testing archive contains a self-contained reimplementation
> in Python with a very simple command-line interface (guess why).

  Ooh, with pdiff support?

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