Bug#791662: aptitude: debdelta integration

2016-05-18 Thread Yuri D'Elia
On Wed, May 18 2016, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 01:59:22PM +0200, A Mennucc1 wrote: >> But keep in mind that debdelta is integrated in 'cupt' that is another >> package manager, similar to 'aptitude'. The main selling point of aptitude for me is the

Bug#791662: aptitude: debdelta integration

2016-05-18 Thread Julian Andres Klode
On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 01:59:22PM +0200, A Mennucc1 wrote: > dear all, > > first of all, I am happy to see that debdelta is useful. > > There was an attempt to integrate in aptitude in the past, as a > apt-method (there are some traces in the code since). > > But keep in mind that debdelta is

Bug#791662: aptitude: debdelta integration

2016-05-18 Thread A Mennucc1
dear all, first of all, I am happy to see that debdelta is useful. There was an attempt to integrate in aptitude in the past, as a apt-method (there are some traces in the code since). But keep in mind that debdelta is integrated in 'cupt' that is another package manager, similar to 'aptitude'.

Bug#791662: aptitude: debdelta integration

2016-05-09 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2016-05-06 10:01 Yuri D'Elia: On Thu, May 05 2016, Axel Beckert wrote: What I do to use debdelta with aptitude, is the following: * Start "aptitude -u" inside a screen session * Wait until the package lists are updated. * Run "debdelta-upgrade" in a second window of the

Bug#791662: aptitude: debdelta integration

2016-05-06 Thread Yuri D'Elia
On Thu, May 05 2016, Axel Beckert wrote: > What I do to use debdelta with aptitude, is the following: > > * Start "aptitude -u" inside a screen session > * Wait until the package lists are updated. > * Run "debdelta-upgrade" in a second window of the screen session > while

Bug#791662: aptitude: debdelta integration

2016-05-05 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo wrote: > >>It would be awesome if aptitude itself supported debdelta when installed. > >>This > >>would mean to run `debdelta-upgrade [selected package list]` as opposed to > >>downloading the packages directly. I couldn't care less about the progress > >>meter

Bug#791662: aptitude: debdelta integration

2016-05-05 Thread Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
Control: tags -1 + moreinfo Hi, 2016-03-14 23:04 Axel Beckert: It would be awesome if aptitude itself supported debdelta when installed. This would mean to run `debdelta-upgrade [selected package list]` as opposed to downloading the packages directly. I couldn't care less about the progress

Bug#791662: aptitude: debdelta integration

2016-03-14 Thread Axel Beckert
Hi, Yuri D'Elia wrote: > First, some debdelta praise: I've been using debdelta on and off over the last > years depending on the circumstances. Whenever I'm working on a lousy/slow > internet connection (quite often, unfortunately), debdelta is effectively my > only chance to perform upgrades to