Re: Bug#35617: apt: count in decimal?
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Adrian Bridgett wrote:
> Get:10 http://sunsite.org.uk unstable/main ltrace 0.3.7 [33.5kb]
> Get:11 http://sunsite.org.uk unstable/main magicfilter 1.2-29 [32.2kb]
> Get:12 http://sunsite.org.uk unstable/non-free xanim 2.80.1-2 [528kb]
> Get:13 http://sunsite.org.uk unstable/main xproc 1:2.0.0-2 [21.2kb]
> Get:14 http://sunsite.org.uk unstable/non-free zip 2.20-3 [68.9kb]
>
> Um - I know Debian's for hackers but do we have to count in hex :-)
Well the short version of this long story is that those numbers are in no
way representative of the current number of download, the remaining number
of downloads or anything else. They are ment to be used as labels so you
can see which download is for which longer description. This is
particularly important for apt-get update where all the download threads
are called Packages :>
If you -really- think it is an issue I can add a configuration directive
to change it <shrug>
Jason
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