apt-get uses inconistent units

[Joseph Garvin]

Binary package hint: apt

1. Use apt-get from the command line to install any package, e.g. "sudo apt-get install mplayer-nogui"
2. Look at the progress output:

96% [12 mplayer-nogui 2931267/3523kB 83%]

On the left hand side of the amount downloaded it appears to be using bytes, and on the right hand side it appears to be using kB. Yes, you can circumvent it by chopping off the last 3 digits in your head, but there's still no reason for it to be like that. It's inconsistent with every other app I've ever used, which reports amount downloaded and total file size in the same units, with the exception of sometimes starting with bytes and moving to KB once at least 1KB has been downloaded, moving to MB once 1MB is downloaded, etc. etc. which would also be acceptable.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Works for me as expected, and this should be fixed since Lucid, since the code change happened on 2010-02-01, see http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/natty/apt/natty/revision/1.4.4#cmdline/acqprogress.cc for the relevant change. Setting as Fix released.

Please set the status back to Confirmed if you still notice this behavior.