For Richard and others at the end of a slower connection or dialup. give debdelta a try.
seems to be working well for me other than some timeouts, but i just restart it and eventually it finishes. compared to a regular update run it's saving me quite a bit of time. just one example from my current update run: Created, time 167.18sec, speed 19kB/sec, locales-all_2.17-2_i386.deb Patching done, time 10.73sec, speed 441k/sec (script 8.94sec 530k/sec) (unaccounted 1.79sec) songbird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/imv86a-p85....@id-306963.user.uni-berlin.de