Package: debdelta Version: 0.44 Severity: wishlist Dear Maintainer, I use debdelta quite a lot. For last couple of days I have not been able to get debdeltas and hence had to use the normal way [1] which takes too much time, effort and bandwidth which could have been saved or used elsewhere. On further investigation it became clear that this is/was due to debdelta.debian.net service/website being down [2] . I wish there was a way that a user could see/know if debdelta.debian.net service is down or not before committing and trying to update. This could be some sort of user-configurable service done in either the systemwide configuration file [3] or the user's own directory [4] I do know that the eventual goal of debdelta is that the service is integrated within the various package managers and the debdelta.debian.net service itself integrated into the various mirrors which give package archives access as of date [5] .
It would be probably be atleast couple of years before the debdelta software is considered mature and ready for inclusion in the various package managers as can be seen of the state of various discussions of debian-infrastructure which are discussed in debian-devel [6]. One can see the passionate discussion about systemd which happened couple of months back as an example. For the record I did see the debdelta-service news [7] through google's cache as well [8] 1. sudo aptitude update; sudo aptitude safe-upgrade -y 2. http://www.isup.me/debdelta.debian.net 3. /etc/debdelta/sources.conf 4. ~/.debdelta/sources.conf 5. http://www.debian.org/mirror/list 6. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel 7. from the cache debdelta-upgrade service news 24th Aug 2011: added support for data.tar.xz Aug 2011: some days no deltas were generated , due to blackouts 8. in google cache:http://debdelta.debian.net Looking forward to know if something can be done in the interim. -- 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 3.0.0-1-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 debdelta depends on: ii binutils 2.21.53.20110823-3 ii bzip2 1.0.5-6 ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6 ii libc6 2.13-18 ii python 2.6.7-3 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 Versions of packages debdelta recommends: pn bsdiff 4.3-10 pn gnupg-agent 2.0.18-1 pn gnupg2 2.0.18-1 pn lzma 4.43-14 pn python-apt 0.8.0 pn xdelta 1.1.3-9 pn xdelta3 3.0.0.dfsg-1 pn xz <none> Versions of packages debdelta suggests: pn debdelta-doc <none> -- 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
