Hi,
even I have noticed now that apt uses a lot more space than it used to.
One reason is that the package index files in the repository contain
entries for multiple versions of a package. This increases the size of
what apt has to download, process, and store significantly, and for no
real benefit.
For example,
http://repository.maemo.org/extras-devel/dists/fremantle/free/binary-armel/Packages
is about 13M, and has 25 versions of conboy-midgard listed in it, and 29
versions of gpxview[1].
I don't know if there is a mechanism in place to control this growth,
but there should be.
I think it would be fine to retain only the most recent version for each
package in extras-devel. We can still keep older versions in the pool,
and we can even make a extras-history repository that indexes all these
old versions. But for extras-devel itself, I think having only one
version is best.
[1] But only 5 versions of mussorgsky. Ivan, release early, release
often!
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