Bug#372504: apt appears to download pdiffs repeatedly

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 02:36:56PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 0.6.44.1
> Severity: normal

Thanks for your bugreport.
 
> I find it hard to believe that this hasn't been reported already, but I
> couldn't find it anywhere... my "aptitude update" has looked like this since
> pdiff support was turned on:
> 
> Get:38 2006-06-04-1349.29.pdiff [248B]
> Get:39 2006-06-04-1349.29.pdiff [248B]
> Get:40 2006-06-04-1349.29.pdiff [248B]
[..]
> I don't know whether it's actually making an http request for each one of
> those files three times, but it definitely claims to.

This is currently a UI problem. It displays the line three times, but
it only downloads it in the first. The other two lines are unpack and
rred (patch).  

Cheers,
 Michael

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