Package: aptitude Version: 0.6.8.2-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I recently switched my sources.list over to the mirror redirector at <http://http.debian.net/>, and since then aptitude lists every package downloaded *twice*, like this:
Actions Undo Package Resolver Search Options Views Help C-T: Menu ?: Help q: Quit u: Update g: Download/Install/Remove Pkgs Packages Recommendations bootchart-view info Package Download http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main libapache-pom-java all 10-2 [Downloaded] http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main libcommons-parent-java all 22-2 [Downloaded] http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main libcommons-lang-java all 2.6-3 [Downloaded] http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main libapache-pom-java all 10-2 [Downloaded] http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main libcommons-cli-java all 1.2-3 [Downloaded] http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main libxz-java all 1.0-2 [Downloaded] http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main libcommons-parent-java all 22-2 [Downloaded] http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main libcommons-compress-java all 1.4.1-2 [Downloaded] http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main bootchart-view all 0.10~svn407-3.3 [Downloaded] http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main libcommons-lang-java all 2.6-3 [Downloaded] http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main libcommons-cli-java all 1.2-3 [Downloaded] http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main libxz-java all 1.0-2 [Downloaded] http://http.debian.net/debian/ testing/main libcommons-compress-java all 1.4.1-2 [Downloaded] http://http.debian.net/debian/ ┌───────────────────────────────────┐svn407-3.3 [Downloaded] │Downloaded 829 kB in 4s (205 kB/s).│ │ [ Continue ] [ Cancel ] │ └───────────────────────────────────┘ Total Progress: [ 100% ] (stalled) </part> So, basically, aptitude is just adding a separate line for each (HTTP?) request, rather than continuing to use the same line when a redirect is encountered. Which, while rather verbose, would at least be reasonable if it didn't also say "Downloaded" when it hadn't done so; a green line saying [Redirected] would probably make more sense? I haven't *noticed* anything like this when updating package lists, but I'm not sure I would, since there are always so many lists and lots of them don't need downloading anyway (and therefore don't result in redirects, according to the documentation). -- Package-specific info:
Terminal: eterm-color $DISPLAY is set. which aptitude: /usr/bin/aptitude aptitude version information: aptitude 0.6.8.2 compiled at Nov 5 2012 06:20:41 Compiler: g++ 4.7.2 Compiled against: apt version 4.12.0 NCurses version 5.9 libsigc++ version: 2.2.10 Ept support enabled. Gtk+ support disabled. Qt support disabled. Current library versions: NCurses version: ncurses 5.9.20110404 cwidget version: 0.5.16 Apt version: 4.12.0 aptitude linkage: linux-gate.so.1 => (0xb7780000) libapt-pkg.so.4.12 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libapt-pkg.so.4.12 (0xb7205000) libncursesw.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 (0xb71d2000) libtinfo.so.5 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5 (0xb71b2000) libsigc-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsigc-2.0.so.0 (0xb71ad000) libcwidget.so.3 => /usr/lib/libcwidget.so.3 (0xb70ad000) libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 => /usr/lib/libept.so.1.aptpkg4.12 (0xb7019000) libxapian.so.22 => /usr/lib/libxapian.so.22 (0xb6e30000) libz.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 (0xb6e17000) libsqlite3.so.0 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libsqlite3.so.0 (0xb6d66000) libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 => /usr/lib/libboost_iostreams.so.1.49.0 (0xb6d4e000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0xb6d34000) libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb6c48000) libm.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0xb6c22000) libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb6c05000) libc.so.6 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0xb6aa8000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libutil.so.1 (0xb6aa3000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0xb6a9f000) libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb6a8e000) libuuid.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libuuid.so.1 (0xb6a88000) librt.so.1 => /lib/i386-linux-gnu/i686/cmov/librt.so.1 (0xb6a7f000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb7781000)
-- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages aptitude depends on: ii aptitude-common 0.6.8.2-1 ii libapt-pkg4.12 0.9.7.6 ii libboost-iostreams1.49.0 1.49.0-3.1 ii libc6 2.13-35 ii libcwidget3 0.5.16-3.4 ii libept1.4.12 1.0.9 ii libgcc1 1:4.7.2-4 ii libncursesw5 5.9-10 ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.2.10-0.2 ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.13-1 ii libstdc++6 4.7.2-4 ii libtinfo5 5.9-10 ii libxapian22 1.2.12-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.7.dfsg-13 Versions of packages aptitude recommends: ii apt-xapian-index 0.45 ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc] 0.6.8.2-1 ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.2.0-1 ii sensible-utils 0.0.7 Versions of packages aptitude suggests: ii debtags 1.10.1 ii tasksel 3.14 -- no debconf information -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread!