[Aptitude-devel] Bug#693847: aptitude: Repeated "Downloaded" lines w/ http.debian.net

[Samuel Bronson]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.6.8.2-1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

I recently switched my sources.list over to the mirror redirector at
<http://http.debian.net/>, and since then aptitude lists every package
downloaded *twice*, like this:

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 Actions  Undo  Package  Resolver  Search  Options  Views  Help                                     
C-T: Menu  ?: Help  q: Quit  u: Update  g: Download/Install/Remove Pkgs                             
        Packages              Recommendations        bootchart-view info       Package Download     
http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main libapache-pom-java all 10-2 [Downloaded]                
http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main libcommons-parent-java all 22-2 [Downloaded]            
http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main libcommons-lang-java all 2.6-3 [Downloaded]             
http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main libapache-pom-java all 10-2 [Downloaded]                
http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main libcommons-cli-java all 1.2-3 [Downloaded]              
http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main libxz-java all 1.0-2 [Downloaded]                       
http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main libcommons-parent-java all 22-2 [Downloaded]            
http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main libcommons-compress-java all 1.4.1-2 [Downloaded]       
http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main bootchart-view all 0.10~svn407-3.3 [Downloaded]         
http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main libcommons-lang-java all 2.6-3 [Downloaded]             
http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main libcommons-cli-java all 1.2-3 [Downloaded]              
http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main libxz-java all 1.0-2 [Downloaded]                       
http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main libcommons-compress-java all 1.4.1-2 [Downloaded]       
http://http.debian.net/debian/ ?????????????????????????????????????svn407-3.3 [Downloaded]         
                               ?Downloaded 829 kB in 4s (205 kB/s).?                                
                               ?   [ Continue ]      [ Cancel ]    ?                                
                               ?????????????????????????????????????                                
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
                                                                                                    
Total Progress:  [ 100% ] (stalled)                                                                 
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So, basically, aptitude is just adding a separate line for each (HTTP?)
request, rather than continuing to use the same line when a redirect is
encountered.  Which, while rather verbose, would at least be reasonable
if it didn't also say "Downloaded" when it hadn't done so; a green line
saying [Redirected] would probably make more sense?

I haven't *noticed* anything like this when updating package lists, but
I'm not sure I would, since there are always so many lists and lots of
them don't need downloading anyway (and therefore don't result in
redirects, according to the documentation).


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-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common           0.6.8.2-1
ii  libapt-pkg4.12            0.9.7.6
ii  libboost-iostreams1.49.0  1.49.0-3.1
ii  libc6                     2.13-35
ii  libcwidget3               0.5.16-3.4
ii  libept1.4.12              1.0.9
ii  libgcc1                   1:4.7.2-4
ii  libncursesw5              5.9-10
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0c2a        2.2.10-0.2
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.7.13-1
ii  libstdc++6                4.7.2-4
ii  libtinfo5                 5.9-10
ii  libxapian22               1.2.12-1
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.7.dfsg-13

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  apt-xapian-index                0.45
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.6.8.2-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-1
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.7

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  debtags  1.10.1
ii  tasksel  3.14

-- no debconf information

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