Shouldn't say "Need to get 0B"
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apt (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Jay Camp wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 15:55 -0600, Carl Karsten wrote:
> > > Just did the first half of hoary install from CD, ejected, reboot, it >
wants the CD, and has some "typos" or something: "Need to get 0B/16.2kB of
archives." 0B?
>
> There's nothing abnormal about this. It means just what it says. The
> install package is 16.2 kB and it already has all of it cached locally,
> so it needs to download 0 B. In other words it copied the package from
> the CD so it's already cached locally on the hard drive and doesn't need
> to fetch it.
> ...
If it looks like a bug and quacks like a bug, the text should perhaps be
special-cased to say something like "The necessary archive has been found on
your computer".
Changed in apt: | |
importance: | Low → Wishlist |
Changed in apt (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Michael Vogt (mvo) → nobody |
tags: | added: patch-needswork |
Thanks for your bugreport.
We are rather late in the release cycle and a string change like this will break
all the 30 translations of apt. So this is hoary+1 material.