Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.11-1+b1 Severity: wishlist First, some debdelta praise: I've been using debdelta on and off over the last years depending on the circumstances. Whenever I'm working on a lousy/slow internet connection (quite often, unfortunately), debdelta is effectively my only chance to perform upgrades to massive packages like tetex, libreoffice, or the like. The bandwidth saving are, in most cases, absolutely enormous (especially when packaging tweaks are being pushed).
I'm all for systematic integration of debdelta into apt. However, after tracking the integration progress over the years, it looks it might take even longer. This is why I decided now to file this whishlist into aptitude in the hope of moving things forward, and faster. It would be awesome if aptitude itself supported debdelta when installed. This would mean to run `debdelta-upgrade [selected package list]` as opposed to downloading the packages directly. I couldn't care less about the progress meter in this scenario, and having "something that works" would be better than just running "debdelta-upgrade" blindly and then continuing with aptitude. I believe *many* users would realize debdelta existed if debdelta was actually integrated into aptitude and suggested as a dependency. debdelta is suggested by 'libcupt' (and thus, when cupt is installed), but sincerely I have no use for another frontend if I'm already using aptitude. It would also be *very* important, irregardless if debdelta is installed and/or if it will ever be integrated on a lower level, to allow the user to switch between regular/debdelta updates though an option in the configuration: debdelta trades between CPU time and bandwidth, and if you have a decent network connection, debdelta is often slower. A setting is definitely warranted. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
