I tell you more: testing now downloads all translations ^_^. 2012/1/29 shirish शिरीष <[email protected]>
> Package: aptitude > Version: 0.6.4-1.2 > Severity: normal > > Dear Maintainer, > I read a few days back and was glad to know about your Description > less Packages file [1] and wanted to know if there is a way or are > going to be ways so that we could have pdiffs for the translations > when we are updating the aptitude index as we have do for others. > > If I understand the idea correctly what it would do is that those > users who do not want/or need english descriptions of packages would > not get any hence saving bandwidth and hdd as well. The problem is > that this change comes along with a slight bandwidth spike of its own. > > As of right now everytime I run > > $sudo aptitude update > > I get something along these lines :- > > Hit http://ftp.au.debian.org stable Release > Get: 36 http://ftp.au.debian.org testing/main 2012-01-23-0213.39.pdiff > [35.1 kB] > Get: 37 http://ftp.au.debian.org testing/main 2012-01-23-0213.39.pdiff > [35.1 kB] > Get: 38 http://ftp.au.debian.org testing/non-free > 2012-01-23-0213.39.pdiff [716 B] > Get: 39 http://ftp.au.debian.org testing/main amd64 > 2012-01-23-0213.39.pdiff [42.3 kB] > Get: 40 http://ftp.au.debian.org testing/non-free > 2012-01-23-0213.39.pdiff [716 B] > Get: 41 http://ftp.au.debian.org testing/non-free amd64 > 2012-01-23-0213.39.pdiff [457 B] > Get: 42 http://ftp.au.debian.org testing/main amd64 > 2012-01-23-0213.39.pdiff [42.3 kB] > Get: 43 http://ftp.au.debian.org testing/contrib Translation-en [34.8 kB] > Get: 44 http://ftp.au.debian.org testing/non-free amd64 > 2012-01-23-0213.39.pdiff [457 B] > Get: 45 http://ftp.au.debian.org testing/main Translation-en [3,698 kB] > Get: 46 http://ftp.au.debian.org testing/non-free Translation-en [62.0 kB] > > Please see lines 44 and line 45 specifically > > Get: 44 http://ftp.au.debian.org testing/non-free amd64 > 2012-01-23-0213.39.pdiff [457 B] > Get: 45 http://ftp.au.debian.org testing/main Translation-en [3,698 kB] > > Now as can be seen the pdiff is fine just in some bytes but for > Translation each time it downloads the full file. This is same for > unstable, testing as well as for experimental with experimental being > the smallest update each time but is still significant. > > Before this change index updation use to be between 500 to 800 KB of > change, now its around 9-11 MB per index update :- > > Fetched 8,711 kB in 7min 54s (18.4 kB/s) > > Current status: 14 updates [+14], 11 new [+11]. > > I do not know whom to approach this, whether you have to do something > or the aptitude people or somebody else somewhere else. Please let me > know if I need to take it up with somebody else. > > Looking forward to hearing from you. > > [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/11/msg00103.html > > -- Package-specific info: > aptitude 0.6.4 compiled at Oct 29 2011 20:08:13 > Compiler: g++ 4.6.2 > Compiled against: > apt version 4.10.1 > NCurses version 5.9 > libsigc++ version: 2.2.9 > Ept support enabled. > Gtk+ support disabled. > Qt support disabled. > > Current library versions: > NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20110404 > cwidget version: 0.5.16 > Apt version: 4.10.1 > linux-vdso.so.1 => (0x00007fff08dff000) > libapt-pkg.so.4.10 => /usr/lib/libapt-pkg.so.4.10 > (0x00007f7b66a18000) > libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 > (0x00007f7b667e9000) > libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 > (0x00007f7b665c0000) > libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0x00007f7b663bb000) > libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0x00007f7b660b3000) > libept.so.1 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1 (0x00007f7b65e56000) > libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0x00007f7b65a59000) > libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f7b65842000) > libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libsqlite3.so.0 (0x00007f7b6559d000) > libboost_iostreams.so.1.46.1 => > /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.46.1 > (0x00007f7b65384000) > libpthread.so.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 > (0x00007f7b65168000) > libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 > (0x00007f7b64e63000) > libm.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6 (0x00007f7b64be1000) > libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 > (0x00007f7b649cb000) > libc.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 (0x00007f7b64646000) > libutil.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libutil.so.1 > (0x00007f7b64443000) > libdl.so.2 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f7b6423f000) > libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0x00007f7b6403a000) > libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 > (0x00007f7b63e2a000) > librt.so.1 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/librt.so.1 (0x00007f7b63c21000) > /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f7b66d5e000) > Terminal: xterm > $DISPLAY is set. > `which aptitude`: /usr/bin/aptitude > aptitude version information: > > aptitude linkage: > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: wheezy/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), > (1, 'experimental') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash > > Versions of packages aptitude depends on: > ii apt [libapt-pkg4.10] 0.8.15.9 > ii libboost-iostreams1.46.1 1.46.1-8 > ii libc6 2.13-24 > ii libcwidget3 0.5.16-3.1 > ii libept1 1.0.5 > ii libgcc1 1:4.6.2-12 > ii libncursesw5 5.9-4 > ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.9-1.1 > ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.9-3 > ii libstdc++6 4.6.2-12 > ii libtinfo5 5.9-4 > ii libxapian22 1.2.8-1 > ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 > > Versions of packages aptitude recommends: > ii apt-xapian-index 0.45 > ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.6.4-1.2 > ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 > ii sensible-utils 0.0.6 > > Versions of packages aptitude suggests: > ii debtags 1.8.0 > ii tasksel 3.07 > > -- no debconf information > > -- > Regards, > Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल > My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ > http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com > 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 > > > >
