Source: apt Severity: wishlist I recently stumbled upon this blog post: https://www.jdieter.net/posts/2018/05/31/what-is-zchunk/
The zchunk format, outlined in the post, is being introduced in Fedora for efficient metadata transfer. I can imagine (but haven’t verified it) that this format is more efficient and flexible (suitable for both fast and slow internet connections/computers) than our current pdiff approach. Thanks for considering, -- Package-specific info: -- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) -- -- (no /etc/apt/preferences.d/* present) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/bazel.list present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/cc65.list present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-chrome.list present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/i3-autobuild.list present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/keybase.list present, but not submitted) -- -- (/etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list present, but not submitted) -- -- System Information: Debian Release: buster/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386, armel, mipsel, arm64 Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) -- no debconf information