Comment 1 for bug 17066

This is a feature of apt. It tries to to shorten the uri so that it better
readable on a terminal.

I played a bit with the code and if the full URI is used, the output looks
pretty bad:

root@top ~/devel/apt/apt--mvo/build/bin # ./apt-get update
Get:1 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/Release.gpg [189B]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/Release.gpg [189B]
Hit http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/Release
Hit http://people.ubuntu.com/~doko/GCC-4.0/i386/Packages.gz
Hit http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/main/source/Sources.bz2
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2
Hit http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/restricted/source/Sources.bz2
Hit http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/universe/source/Sources.bz2
Hit
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/restricted/binary-i386/Packages.bz2
Hit http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/universe/binary-i386/Packages.bz2
Hit
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages.bz2
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Cheers,
 Michael