Bug#372712: as in debdelta

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

debdev@tonelli.sns.it (A Mennucc) writes:

> On Thu, Jul 20, 2006 at 12:59:15PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>>  There is some wasted download especially with bzip2s
>> chunkyness but overall that should be minimal.
>
> Unfortunately not; 'bzip2 -9' processes stuff in data blocks of 900kB
> (uncompressed); since the ratio is ~ 4.4 , you would always need to
> download ~ 200kB of data to get the first block
>
> a.
>
> -- 
> Andrea Mennucc

Compared to 2-3MB that isn't bad. One probably should use only gzip
for that method though for this reason.

MfG
        Goswin