incorrect download size shown in GUI mode when part of the download has already been completed

[lexual]

Let's say I cancelled a dist-upgrade before the downloading had finished.

When I go to try it again from the shell I am told how much download remains.

"Need to get 65.2MB/90.9MB of archives."

If I try the same thing from the GUI mode I am told:

"DL Size: 90.9MB".

This should be changed to the remaining download amount.

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

Synaptic is plagued by this problem as well. It has a lot to do with the
internal workings of libapt. To get the size of the already downloaded packages
it is required to create a fetcher object. This is done in aptitude/synaptic
only for the actual download, not for the "preview window". I think that this is
hoary+1 material (given that we are pretty late in the release cycle right now).

[lexual (lexhider)]

just noting that this is still an issue for dapper.

[Paul White (paulw2u)]

Upstream bug showing merged with #446085
and closed 2016-03-01
Changelog checked
Marking "Fix Released" to close