Joerg Mayer jmayer@loplof.de writes:
You are right - but mainly on theory. In the real cases that have affected changes to images in wine, the diff has problably been larger than a complete gif/bmp/jpg in most cases.
The size of the file itself is not the issue. The issue is that people can no longer download a 500Kb Wine-xxx.diff.gz and need to download the 7Mb Wine-xxx.tar.gz instead. It basically makes the .diff.gz files useless for upgrading.