Refining the update queues/process [Was: Worthless updates]

Mon Mar 8 23:21:43 UTC 2010

On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 23:52:24 +0100,
  Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> It takes days for updates to be distributed to mirrors. A week may be
> nothing for that important power-user of app 'A', who would find a problem
> as soon as he *would* try out a test-update.

Some mirrors. Others have stuff within hours. Currently most of the kernel.org
mirrors are picking stuff up pretty rapidly. Though things change over time.