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Re: Bug#768184: debian-installer: Progress indicator sometimes false



Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> (2016-02-16):
> I'm copying the APT maintainers for comment:
> 
> * Stéphane Aulery <saulery@free.fr> [2014-11-05 20:13]:
> > Package: debian-installer
> > 
> > After choosing the mirror, counter downloaded files is wrong on several
> > occasions. It displays :
> > 
> > Download file 1 of 1
> > Download file 2 of 2
> > Download file 3 of 3
> > 
> > instead of :
> > 
> > Download file 1 of 3
> > Download file 2 of 3
> > Download file 3 of 3
> 
> * Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> [2014-11-05 22:48]:
> > ISTR apt's unable to count (possibly because it can't or at least
> > doesn't know in advance how many files it will need).
> 
> * Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> [2014-11-07 15:57]:
> > Presumably correct while downloading debs, and incorrect while running
> > apt-get update? That would match what I was thinking about. I'm not
> > seeing any obvious bug reports from me against apt about this issue
> > though.

It seems less obvious now, but presumably because my tests are running
on a quicker machine… Anyway, I seem to have spotted this with a local
d-i build, so that might still be current at the moment.


KiBi.

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