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Bug#213551: marked as done (apt should support use of diffs in place of full packages)

Your message dated Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:10:35 +0200
with message-id <496B4F5B.7060403@gmail.com>
and subject line closing #128818, #213551
has caused the Debian Bug report #213551,
regarding apt should support use of diffs in place of full packages
to be marked as done.

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Package: apt
Severity: wishlist

Being stuck on a 57.6 dialup connection to the net, I find that keeping
up with Sid requires hours of downloading every night.  Just doing
"apt-get update" requires a 3 meg download.  In many cases, the updates
to packages are minor, meaning the new package is 99% identical to the
old one.

A good way to reduce the pain would be to enable apt to download diffs
in place of whole package files when the user already has a package
installed.  It would also reduce the bandwidth demands on servers.


-- Package-specific info:

-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --


-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: sh: line 1: /usr/bin/dpkg: Permission denied
Kernel: Linux localhost 2.4.22-1-k7 #1 Sat Sep 6 02:13:04 EST 2003 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Version: 0.6.44

PDiffs, largely discussed at this bug thread, was reached apt at version
0.6.44. I'm closing this bug now so long.

-- 
Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
Ukrainian C++ Developer, Debian Maintainer, APT contributor

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