debmirror --progress option does not show progress bar

[Zenaan Harkness]

Binary package hint: debmirror

The debmirror man page has these two options described:
       --verbose -v
           Displays progress between file downloads.

       --progress -p
           Displays progress bars as files are downloaded.

I've tried -v -p, as well as just -p, but there are no "progress
bars". I assume progress bars are something akin to wget's verbose/
progress bars output - this is what I want to see, because sometimes
say a 58MB samba-dbg file is downloading, and I want to stop it for
some reason, and I want to stop it in-between downloads, and I can't
see the progress of each file, which would be better than seeing
nothing for a long time, waiting for that file to end, before CTRL-C,
or else, just doing CTRL-C straight away, and hoping that I haven't
wasted my bandwidth (eg since file was only 50% downloaded, the MD5
checks will cause it to be downloaded again...).

Am I doing something wrong, are there really progress bars somewhere?
or is the documentation/ man page wrong - there's no progress bars?

Thanks
Zenaan

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: debmirror 1:2.4.4ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Sep 11 00:33:49 2010
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=C
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_AU.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: debmirror

[KarlGoetz (kgoetz)]

sub http_get and sub ftp_get are the relevant fucntions, you can see the print "\t #" if $progress; about 10 lines in. Why its not being triggered I don't know though.
Perhaps you should forward this bug to debian and link it back to this report (I'm sure there are instructions on the wiki to do that).