[Aptitude-devel] Bug#791662: aptitude: debdelta integration

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

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Hi,

2016-03-14 23:04 Axel Beckert:
>
>> It would be awesome if aptitude itself supported debdelta when installed. This
>> would mean to run `debdelta-upgrade [selected package list]` as opposed to
>> downloading the packages directly. I couldn't care less about the progress
>> meter in this scenario, and having "something that works" would be better than
>> just running "debdelta-upgrade" blindly and then continuing with aptitude.
>
>aptitude uses apt methods to download files. So I think that
>integration should be done as an apt method for easier integration
>with _any_ apt based package manager and to avoid duplicating the
>integration effort.
>
>The documentation for developing such a backend is at
>/usr/share/doc/libapt-pkg-doc/method.html/index.html (in the package
>libapt-pkg-doc).

So I haven't looked into this, but it seems that the only option (or the
most sensible, at any rate) is to use apt methods because this
integration happens when acquiring the packages -- which aptitude
doesn't do directly.

If there's nothing that we can do from aptitude's side until that
happens, I think that it's better to close this report.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>