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 शिरà¥à¤· > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I am and was updating my package index via aptitude and the following > > happens each time :- > > > > $ sudo aptitude update > [â¦] > > 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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