Bug#309993: apt: Single package installations doesn't count bytes already downloaded

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby@users.sf.net> writes:

> Package: apt
> Version: 0.5.28.6
> Severity: normal
>
> cane:/home/pryzbyj# apt-get install bbappconf
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   bbappconf
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 259 not upgraded.
> Need to get 39.1kB of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
>...
> There are 2 problems, probably unrelated.
>
> 1. "...0B of additional disk space..." is clearly wrong.

I don't think so. You are upgrading a package and if the size didn't
change then no additional disk space will be used.

Did you compare the size information of the old version with the new
to come to this conclusion?

MfG
        Goswin