control: close -1 [2017-02-08 20:25] Niels Thykier <ni...@thykier.net> > Hi, > > I would be happy to see this reduced search indices be part of apt-file > eventually. It would hopefully enable other packages (like > command-not-found and the Perl team's dh-make variant) to reuse apt-file > (or its replacement) to search through optimised indices. > > A couple of remarks about the upstream code. Please consider using > apt's fetch system to download Contents files. A couple of items where > the download falls short: > > * Non-trivial supports like mirror:// or tor+http(s):// > * It does not support alternative mirror layouts (e.g. Ubuntu and > Debian disagrees on the location of Contents) > * It does not support APT's proxying > * It does not verify downloads (admittedly, a very minor issue) > * It does not support the compression from APT (e.g. if a mirror want > to provide the files uncompressed or .xz compressed) > * It does not support PDiffs for updates > * It does not automatically fetch Contents-all if the archive > moved the "arch:all" files into Contents-all. I will actively push > for this in buster (to reduce download sizes - notably of PDiffs) > (see #649882)
Thank you for such detailed review. So I withdraw this ITP and add patch to apt-file into my TODO. -- X-Web-Site: https://sinsekvu.github.io | Note that I process my email in batch, Accept-Languages: eo,ru,en | at most once every 24 hours. If matter Accept: text/plain, text/x-diff | is urgent, you have my phone number.
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