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@@ -199,3 +199,20 @@ Perhaps there is some package in Debian depending on sync() and
 fsync() having effect?  Perhaps it should go into its own udeb, to
 allow those of us wanting to enable it to do so without affecting
 everyone.</p>
+
+<p>Update 2014-09-24: Since a few days ago, enabling this optimization
+will break installation of all programs using gnutls because of
+<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/702711">bug #702711</a>.  An updated
+eatmydata package in Debian will solve it.</p>
+
+<p>Update 2014-10-17: The bug mentioned above is fixed in testing and
+the optimization work again.  And I have discovered that the
+dpkg-divert trick is not really needed and implemented a slightly
+simpler approach as part of the debian-edu-install package.  See
+tools/edu-eatmydata-install in the source package.</p>
+
+<p>Update 2014-11-11: Unfortunately, a new
+<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/765738">bug #765738</a> in eatmydata only
+triggering on i386 made it into testing, and broke this installation
+optimization again.  If <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/768893">unblock
+request 768893</a> is accepted, it should be working again.</p>