> debpatch and debdelta-upgrade have an option
> --format unzipped
> that will recreate the deb w/o compressing the data part: this is
> much faster.
But it would often use a lot more disk space :-(
If we were instead to just keep the original `.deb` together with the
xdelta, it would be in most cases smaller.
> The point is, I do not know if apt will accept those .debs . Maybe apt may
> have an option to accept debs even when the size is not what is expected.
I strongly suspect that it would require changes in APT, indeed.
Stefan
