Package: general Severity: wishlist Dear Debian,
At the end of a slow line it would still be nice to be able to download only the actual binary differences between versions of a package during an upgrade. Especially for larger packages. I'm sure it is possible to do technically, but it may require a very different approach to packaging. For the longer view, yes, the internet is getting faster, but it isn't always fast for everyone and it is nice to think of it as a limited resource. If Debian can make this change then that is many many bytes no longer needing to be shipped, saving energy and connection times for everyone, disk space, etc. Thanks for consideration, -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130510064328.20426.50919.report...@ant.home
