[Aptitude-devel] Bug#817547: aptitude: Download size miscalculated (not re-calculated?) after an TUI install run

[Axel Beckert]

Package: aptitude
Version: 0.7.8-1
Severity: minor

Hi,

I've just installed some updates including a kernel update:

* aptitude -u
* Shift-U to upgrade all upgradable packages. The list of upgradable
  packages included a linux kernel image and headers, i.e. about 100MB
  of downloads.
* Marked sassc as to be installed.
* mercurial can't be upgraded since it would violate a dependency of
  tortoisehg
* 2x pressing "g"

One package (sassc) failed to install due to a file conflict
(https://bugs.debian.org/817139).

At the end I pressed enter where it says "Press Return to continue."

On top, aptitude says "Disk: +36.9 kB        DL: 109 MB/109 MB" despite
only "sassc" is marked as being installed which needs 36.9 kB disk space if
installed

I think these "109MB" are wrong here since just installing sassc surely
can't cause over 100MB of needed downloads. I suspect that after
downloading, some variable is not properly re-initialised or
re-calculated or such.

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-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (980, 'unstable-debug'), (600, 'testing'), (111, 'buildd-unstable'), (111, 'buildd-experimental'), (110, 'experimental'), (105, 'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.5.0-rc4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii  aptitude-common            0.7.8-1
ii  libapt-pkg5.0              1.2.6
ii  libboost-filesystem1.58.0  1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1
ii  libboost-iostreams1.58.0   1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1
ii  libboost-system1.58.0      1.58.0+dfsg-5+b1
ii  libc6                      2.22-1
ii  libcwidget3v5              0.5.17-4+b1
ii  libgcc1                    1:5.3.1-11
ii  libncursesw5               6.0+20160213-1
ii  libsigc++-2.0-0v5          2.6.2-1
ii  libsqlite3-0               3.11.1-1
ii  libstdc++6                 5.3.1-11
ii  libtinfo5                  6.0+20160213-1
ii  libxapian22v5              1.2.22-3

Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii  aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc]  0.7.8-1
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl   1.2.0-8
ii  sensible-utils                  0.0.9

Versions of packages aptitude suggests:
ii  apt-xapian-index  0.47+nmu2
ii  debtags           2.0.2
ii  tasksel           3.34

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