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

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Hi Axel,

2016-03-09 20:58 Axel Beckert:
>Hi again,
>
>Axel Beckert wrote:
>> 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.
>
>If I quit aptitude with "q" + "y" and start it again with "aptitude",
>that line only says "Disk: +36.9 kB          DL: 0 B/11.5 kB" which
>approximately what I expect.

That's strange.  If the installation is successful, seems to work fine.

Reinstalling packages also produce strange effects, I haven't been able
to find a proper pattern yet.

I think that part of the problem is that the signals when updated the
planned action of the package are not emitted as they should, or at
least as I expected.

Needs more investigation...

-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>