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Kubuntu Edgy 6.10 alternate CD: design bug

Bug #63827 reported by Torsten Eichstädt
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Bug Description

Updates should be tranmitted as binary diffs. This is IMHO "no point of discussion".

- Not everyone has a highspeed network connection
- Especially a beta release has many updates
- Especially with a beta release you might install several times to test the install procedure

Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)
Changed in debian-installer:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

Not an installer bug.

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William Grant (wgrant) wrote :

That's what rsync does.

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Torsten Eichstädt (torsten-eichstaedt) wrote :

Yes. My suggestion is to integrate such a tool like rsync into the updater.
I.e. lower level tools providing such techniques are available (and _mature_), so why not integrate it?
I realize that this might have low priority, because in principle an update works with or w/o diffs. But it would be a great enhancement for people with low speed internet connection.

I dont know where to put suggestions for feature enhancements, please feel free to post this suggestion on my behalf to the right place.

Greetings from Berlin, torsten

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