I'm going to bring this up at UDS. I don't have any specific statistics, but I imagine that daily updates place a pretty substantial burden on the mirrors.
Another thing worth considering is moving from .gz to .lzma (or better) compression of the Packages file itself. A simple test shows that Intrepid can save another 10% over .bz2 by using Packages.lzma ** Changed in: reprepro (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Wishlist ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: reprepro (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged -- "package lists" should be downloaded as diffs (Contents-i386.gz) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/144083 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs