Maximum value of the "update/reload" progressbar skips when updating

[Michaël Arnauts]

When you do a update of the packages from inside synaptic, the progressbar
doesn't go smooth from 0% to 100%. To make this clear, i attached a movie (115
KB) that describes what the problem is.

Originally filed at: http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?func=detailitem&item_id=13380

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Response of Michael Vogt:

Thanks for your bugreport and the video!

This is really a bug in libapt. The problem here is that apt needs to download a
"index" file that has the information about how many packages needs to be
downloaded and how big those are. Once the index file is downloaded it updates
the status and that's why you see those strange "skips".

I agree that the behaviour should be improved (e.g. by showing the progress of
downloading the release-index file first and then starting from 0% again for the
rest of the packages file).

I would like to ask if you could file this bug to either the debian or the
ubuntu bugtracker? I find the savannah bugtracker cumbersome to use.

Thanks,
Michael

[Michaël Arnauts (michael-arnauts)]

Created an attachment (id=2725)
movie

this is the file that describes the problem more.

[Michael R. Head (burner)]

It seems like it skips back even after it knows the total number of files it needs to download (in my case 118).

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for posting this bug.

Does this occur in Lucid?

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

In Maverick, this does not seem to happen. Marking as fixed.