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They can but they do not because servers are broken (and terribly so) and it brings less than zero gain for big files. See, debian does not want to manage spec
by AstralStorm 8y ago
They can but they do not because servers are broken (and terribly so) and it brings less than zero gain for big files.
See, debian does not want to manage specific mirror server features if they don't have to. If they were in that position they'd make their own protocol.
- loeg 8y agoRight, that makes sense. So it's not so much a client limitation as a minimum common denominator for their hosting infrastructure.