On Thu, 24, Nov, 2011 at 03:55:49PM +0100, Ansgar Burchardt spoke thus.. > Package: ftp.debian.org > User: ftp.debian....@packages.debian.org > Usertag: dak > Severity: wishlist > > The arch:all part of Contents-*.gz are ~15 MB of the total 20 MB per > architecture (as could be seen on Contents-armhf.gz which has no > arch:any packages yet). I was wondering if we might want to move > this to a Contents-all.gz that could be shared between all > architectures. > > Note that this would also require changes to tools using the > contents files as they would need to also download (and use) the > -all file.
This should probably go to -devel for discussion / comments before we implement it - it's a backwards incompatible break after all... Also, we'll need to make it setable per-suite (urgh, another setting) for at least a while so that we can continue <= squeeze in the same way. Mark -- Mark Hymers <mhy at debian dot org> "++?????++ Out of Cheese Error. Redo From Start." Interesting Times, Terry Pratchett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org