Bug#43672: apt: "Need to get ____kB of archives..." line is inaccurate for interrupted downloads

[njs@uclink4.berkeley.edu]

Package: apt
Version: 0.3.11
Severity: normal

You probably already know this, and it's no big deal, but if the download
of a package has been interrupted, then the initial estimate of how much
needs to be downloaded does not take that into account; it just assumes
that every package to be installed must be downloaded in full.

WyrmWeyr:~$ sudo apt-get install geomview
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  geomview 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3974kB of archives. After unpacking 11.4MB will be used.
            ^^^^^^
In this case it actually only needed to get about half of that much, because
the package was already partially downloaded:
 Fetched 2740kB in 17s (160kB/s)

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux WyrmWeyr 2.2.11 #40 Sun Aug 22 16:44:05 PDT 1999 i586 unknown

Versions of the packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6           2.1.2-0pre11   GNU C Library: Shared libraries and timezone
ii  libstdc++2.9-gl 2.91.66-2      The GNU stdc++ library (EGCS version)