Comment 10 for bug 830492

Hey James! Great to hear that you work on a more general fix for apt-get. You may want to join the irc channel #debian-apt on irc.oftc.net at some point to talk about your plans so that we can coordinate.

Download and install in parallel is currently progressing only slowly, during the current summer of code we got a new order algorithm that can now order the packages in a way that puts them together in groups that can be installed independently.

You linksed to "pacserve" which is quite interessting. Are you aware of the similar (but not quite the same) project "squid-deb-proxy" and "squid-deb-proxy-client" ?