Given the lack of movement from Debian, perhaps it's not worth waiting for them?
There are of course a great deal more people affected here than just those who've noticed the bug and subscribed to it. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/275994 Title: support parallel downloads from the same host Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in apt package in Debian: New Bug description: Binary package hint: apt apt-get apparently currently uses some simple wget-type sequential download algorithm for all its functions that download anything from the net, like update, install, dist-upgrade, upgrade, build-dep, source etc. This really does not well use the available broadband bandwidth of most users. Hence I am forced to use home-cooked scripts to extract the URLs to download and then pass them to aria2 (GPL) to download, so that the thing is done faster. Granted, the user may not want his entire bandwidth hogged by apt-get, but at least provide this as an option -- use a faster split-download algorithm, or at least use a good backend downloader like aria2 which provides high-speed downloading. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/275994/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
