Bug#128818: Any way to get this working?

[Doug Holland <meldroc@frii.com>]

I've just been referred here after suggesting that apt allow users to download 
diffs in place of full debs and Package.gz files, and read Martin Pool's 
paper.  For those of us, include me :(, that are stuck using 57.6 dialup 
conections, even a little delta compression would be helpful, say on the 
Packages files.  For example, doing an apt-get update downloads more than 3 
megs of Packages and Sources files.  These files are simple ASCII lists of 
package information, which would benefit greatly from delta compression, even 
if it only was running diff on the uncompressed Packages files, and making 
Packages.diff.gz files available.