Bug#92220: RFP: Contents-* - Please package Contents-*.gz files

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

Piotr Krukowiecki <piotr@pingu.ii.uj.edu.pl> wrote:
>Contents-*.gz files are very usefull. AFAIR they are generated weekly.
>
>Having to download them manually is not very comfortable.
>Why not apt-get install contents-i386 and have it always up-to-date?
>
>In addition, package could be upgraded only when Contents-*.gz file has
>really changed (e.g sort both files and diff them or sth. like that)

They change every day for most architectures (or would if they were kept
up-to-date). This seems a bit impractical ...

I'd like some more convenient way of dealing with them, I must admit.

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]