Re: Proposal: A new approach to differential debs

2017-08-13 Thread Christian Seiler
On 08/13/2017 07:11 PM, Peter Silva wrote: >> apt by default automatically deletes packages files after a successful >> install, > > I don't think it does that. The "apt" command line tool doesn't, but traditional "apt-get" does, as does "aptitude". This was documented in the release notes of Je

Re: Proposal: A new approach to differential debs

2017-08-13 Thread Christian Seiler
(Setting reply-to to debian-devel@ only as I don't think this should continue on debian-dpkg@ and deity@) On 08/14/2017 12:29 AM, Marvin Renich wrote: > * Christian Seiler [170813 13:19]: >> On 08/13/2017 07:11 PM, Peter Silva wrote: >>>> apt by default automatically de

A radically different proposal for differential updates

2017-08-15 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi there, I've come to believe that binary diff packages are not the best way of solving this issue. Intead I'd like to propse a radically different solution to this issue. The gist of it: instead of adding a format for how deltas work, I propose to introduce a new format for storing Debian packa