1. According to the debmirror manpage pdiffs are used by default. 2. No, debmirror does not recover gracefully when pdiffs are used and ed is missing. It will fail with an error when it tries to patch the packages list.
Sorry for the long delay, I did not receive your email, it got sent to "C. Dominik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de instead. Regards, Dominik
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