Re: Unusual errors during apt-get update
It has been pointed out in the Reddit thread by the user notR1CH that
these messages are not really errors, but are caused by apt deciding to
download the whole file instead of the patch once the ratio of the size
of the patch vs the whole file exceeds a certain threshold (as
determined by the "Acquire::PDiffs::SizeLimit" configuration variable).
Specifically this calculation is done in the function named
"pkgAcqDiffIndex::ParseDiffIndex" in file "acquire-item.cc", which has
the following comment:
// failing here is fine: our caller will take care of trying to
// get the complete file if patching fails
Link to the comment:
https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1ndt5wp/comment/ndr66v7/
As such it seems to me that this is not really an error and can be
disregarded.
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