Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Vi, 10 mai 13, 13:50:39, David Prévot wrote: >> debdelta is not really new, not sure the release-notes is the best place >> to advertise it, maybe debian-reference would be better suited if not >> already documented there. > > Upgrading to a new stable release probably results in downloading an > order of magnitude more packages than all point releases combined. A > hint towards debdelta seems natural, maybe in the "sufficient-space" > section.
Debdelta may be handy for Testing/Unstable users doing daily upgrades, but I don't see how it's going to be any help for Stable users doing biennial dist-upgrades. Calculating deltas requires stored copies of the previous .debs to diff against. The http://debdelta.debian.net service keeps a set of snapshots, but not 27 months worth: "Summarizing, an end user has a window (of 10 to 50 days) of opportunity to upgrade using debdelta-upgrade". And what do I do with a downloaded delta if I don't have a local copy of the old .deb to "patch" into the new version? -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
