apt and pdiff files

[Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 07:33:14PM +0100, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> I wonder why Ubuntu's archive doesn't use pdiff as Debian does.
> I looked around but I wasn't able to find any reason.
> 
> Can someone tell me something about?

There are claims (from 2008!) that pdiffs only make things slower:
http://blog.ganneff.de/blog/2008/09/01/pdiffs-1.html

Marius Gedminas
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