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Hi,
2016-03-14 23:04 Axel Beckert:
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.
aptitude uses apt methods to download files. So I think that
integration should be done as an apt method for easier integration
with _any_ apt based package manager and to avoid duplicating the
integration effort.
The documentation for developing such a backend is at
/usr/share/doc/libapt-pkg-doc/method.html/index.html (in the package
libapt-pkg-doc).
So I haven't looked into this, but it seems that the only option (or the
most sensible, at any rate) is to use apt methods because this
integration happens when acquiring the packages -- which aptitude
doesn't do directly.
If there's nothing that we can do from aptitude's side until that
happens, I think that it's better to close this report.
Cheers.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montez...@gmail.com>
