On 2025-09-14 01:12:07 +0300, monodev wrote: > It has been pointed out in the Reddit thread by the user notR1CH that these > messages are not really errors, but are caused by apt deciding to download > the whole file instead of the patch once the ratio of the size of the patch > vs the whole file exceeds a certain threshold (as determined by the > "Acquire::PDiffs::SizeLimit" configuration variable). Specifically this > calculation is done in the function named "pkgAcqDiffIndex::ParseDiffIndex" > in file "acquire-item.cc", which has the following comment: > > // failing here is fine: our caller will take care of trying to > // get the complete file if patching fails > > Link to the comment: > > https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1ndt5wp/comment/ndr66v7/ > > As such it seems to me that this is not really an error and can be > disregarded.
If this is not an error, this should not be reported to the end user. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
