On Sun, 9 Jun 2013 23:29:27 +0200 David Kalnischkies
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Control: reassign -1 ftp.debian.org
> 
> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 2:02 PM, shirish शिरीष 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I am and was updating my package index via aptitude and the following
> > happens each time :-
> >
> > $ sudo aptitude update
> […]
> > Fetched 14.7 MB in 6min 50s (35.9 kB/s)
> >
> > What is of concern are these downloads to the package list :-
> >
> > Get: 11 http://ftp.debian.org jessie/main Translation-en [3,851 kB]
> > Get: 27 http://ftp.debian.org stable/main Sources [5,949 kB]
> > Get: 35 http://ftp.debian.org stable/main Translation-en [3,851 kB]
> >
> > As can be seen it's translation and Sources which are to blame here.
> > Couldn't they have pdiffs like everybody else.
> 
> 
> The APT team is not responsible for the archive, so reassigning to
> the more aptly masters of the (known) Debian package universe.
> 
> The answer might be that pdiffs in their current implementation in APT
> are pretty slow and we should fix that before annoying users
> (I am personally much in favor of pdiffs, but not everybody is).
> 
> 
> Best regards
> 
> David Kalnischkies
> 
> 

Hi,

The FTP-masters fixed this bug recently by adding PDiffs for Sources and
the Translation files.

Thanks,
~Niels




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