Bug#37525: Packages.bz2 support would save bandwidth
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 11:53:28AM +0100, Michael Vogt wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 07:29:24PM +0100, Holger Spielmann wrote:
> > Hello,
> Hi,
>
> > support for bzip2 compressed package lists would save a non-trivial
> > amount of bandwith. Packages.bz2 is usually 20..30% smaller than
> > Packages.gz, same applies to Sources.[gz|bz2]
> [..]
>
> There is a patch ready that just needs a bit more testing. It will
> check for Packages.bz2 and fallback to Packages.gz if that is not
> available. The patch is available at
> https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/attachment.cgi?id=767
>
> I'm sure it will be merged soon.
Correct; it's already merged into the mainline branch in arch. The Debian
base system is frozen, so it won't enter Debian until after the sarge
release.
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- mdz
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