Bug#42127: apt: overal % of download estimate wrong?

[joost witteveen <joostje@cistron.nl>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.11
Severity: normal

While `apt-get -f install' was running, apt-get nicely tried to
calculate the percentage of how much was already downloaded. But
it did somewhat fail:

8742014% [4 perl-5.004-doc 611938/2292kB 26%]       3475B/s 14d 7h14m11s

(apt-get actually only needed to download a total of 4 megabytes).

Yes, I know my internet connection is slow -- but 4 megabytes in 14 days
and 7 hours?

For the rest, everything went OK (and the download took about normal
time).

Thanks,

(downgrade this bug to whishlist if you want, couldn't decide what
to use)

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.1
Kernel Version: Linux muso 2.2.3 #8 Tue Apr 27 14:25:07 CEST 1999 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6           2.1.1-13       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii  libstdc++2.9-gl 2.91.66-2      The GNU stdc++ library (EGCS version)