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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]