Binary diffs for deb files

[Jonathon Anderson]

The problem with this is that many people don't still have the deb's
from the programs installed on their systems. In stead, the patch would
have to have diffs for each individual file in the deb.

On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 02:50 +0100, James Hall wrote:
> e idea. Take an old version of a deb file (say Gimp for breezy)
> and a new version (the dapper version) and make a binary diff. I think
> a
> format of package_oldversion_newversion_arch.deb.patch looks pretty
> reasonable. This file could sit somewhere on a repository and if the
> user already has an older deb it could check to see if a patch between
> this and the desired version has already been made. This could save
> alot
> of bandwidth.