Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 2:02 PM, shirish शिरीष <shirisha...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am and was updating my package index via aptitude and the following > happens each time :- > > $ sudo aptitude update […] > Fetched 14.7 MB in 6min 50s (35.9 kB/s) > > What is of concern are these downloads to the package list :- > > Get: 11 http://ftp.debian.org jessie/main Translation-en [3,851 kB] > Get: 27 http://ftp.debian.org stable/main Sources [5,949 kB] > Get: 35 http://ftp.debian.org stable/main Translation-en [3,851 kB] > > As can be seen it's translation and Sources which are to blame here. > Couldn't they have pdiffs like everybody else.
The APT team is not responsible for the archive, so reassigning to the more aptly masters of the (known) Debian package universe. The answer might be that pdiffs in their current implementation in APT are pretty slow and we should fix that before annoying users (I am personally much in favor of pdiffs, but not everybody is). Best regards David Kalnischkies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
