Bug#417953: apt's Packages.diff: 7 days, but Christmas has 12
reassign 417953 ftp.debian.org
thanks
Hi
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 23:01:36 +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.46.4
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Why go through all the effort to make a Packages.diff directory, and
> then only keep one week of diffs in it?
>
> Doesn't the song go "on the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave
> to me"...one tiny missing .diff, so I have to download the whole
> */Packages.gz again. (And how to configure apt to get the smaller .bz2?)
>
> "Just use the rsync hack," you chuckle. Yes, long ago I did but let's
> not complicate this further.
>
> 12 days instead of seven would still be nothing compared to the
> whopping .gz or .bz2's that one must download if one does not return
> home in time, which is often the case for rural users.
>
> I'm not asking for a whole month of Ramadan of .diffs, just your basic
> Christian values of 12 days.
>
> (Wait, I see at least my run of apt-get update downloaded both the .gz
> and the 6 MB .gz AND the 4.5 MB .bz2. OK, I will route this message
> through the bug tracking system too.)
This was wrongly filed against apt, but apt does neither generate nor
remove those files in the server. Thus reassigning, the ftp-masters
will decide if this is something desired.
regards,
guillem
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