Bug#144770: apt: Message 'so-and-so space will be used' is misleading when upgrading
Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: minor
When upgrading a whole lot of packages with apt, it will use phrases like 'downloading
450K of packages, 1K will be used'. This leads to user confusion as they don't
understand how 450K of compressed packages can lead to only 1K usage. What apt really
means is that current disk usage will increase by 1K --- the message should really be
rephrased IMHO. Of course a similar change would be necessary the other way for when
apt frees up space on aggregate.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux laura 2.4.18-686 #1 Sun Apr 14 11:32:47 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library
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