I'm just putting this "out there", for some consideration and discussion.
I'm hoping someone can come up with a better idea than I have and that
perhaps there will be some kind of positive response to the request.
Here it is: whilst I totally appreciate all the hard work that goes into
patching an
It sounds like a good idea, but I don't know how feasible it would be. I
know at one point there was also work going on with debdiffs, but I haven't
heard anything on that in a long time.
At the very least, this is definitely an area that needs to be looked at,
maybe at the Jaunty+1 UDS?
Evan
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Another possibility that I just recalled was that of using lzma compression
instead of gzip for the packages. Again, it was discussed a while ago and I
haven't heard anything since. Did anything ever come of that?
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On Saturday 31 January 2009 09:09:04 Davyd McColl wrote:
> Here it is: whilst I totally appreciate all the hard work that goes into
> patching and maintaining the current release version of large packages (like
> the kernel, openoffice.org, or even just warsow, which has a large data
> component),
There is this bug but it is demoted to wishlist status at the moment...
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/294523
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