Re: sources.list brainstorm
[late and completely offtopic now, but anyway]
On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 16:13, Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-07-02 at 20:40 +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote:
>> I just said it to avoid that anyone gets the impression i would jump
>> on that train now as a driver or something. If we have a (frozen)
>> spec, why not, if nobody else want to do the patch before i am fine
>> with doing it, but until then i treat it the same way as i should have
>> treated e.g. "Removing long descriptions from Packages"…
>
> Ok, makes sense.
>
> On the moving long descriptions from packages thing, What is the status
> of that? I run Debian on my phone (OpenMoko) and stripping the
> descriptions would reduce the time it takes to decompress the packages
> file and apt-get update in general.
APT in squeeze has full support for it as by-product of multiple translation
support. It already tries to download Translation-en so in theory ftpmasters
could switch any day provided that her apt-ftparchive rewrite supports
it of course.
I "fear" Ubuntu will deploy it to reduce the size needed for MultiArch soon [0]
(as far as i know, they still use [parts of] apt-ftparchive).
Best regards
David Kalnischkies
P.S.: I use the same brick^Wphone so i know what you mean ;)
[0] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-o-multiarch-next-steps
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