#636796 use compression on first part of update transaction too

Package:
apt
Source:
apt
Description:
commandline package manager
Submitter:
Date:
2015-08-17 08:30:06 UTC
Severity:
wishlist
#636796#5
Date:
2011-08-05 22:34:38 UTC
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Gentlemen, it turns out the initial part of an apt-get update,
the part which sends

GET /debian/dists/unstable/InRelease HTTP/1.1
Host: ...
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
User-Agent: Debian APT-HTTP/1.3 (0.8.15.5)

(as seen in tcpflow(1)), does not get a compressed result. Even though
it is only a 150 KB reply, but why not enable compression and just send
a third of that?
#636796#10
Date:
2015-08-17 08:28:52 UTC
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We do not have any support for compressed replies (only for replies containing
compressed files, ending in a compressor-specific file extension), adding that
would need a lot of work for not much gain.

Yes, we can go down from currently ~ 200 KiB to 61 KiB, but I don't think
that's going to be a huge advantage.