** Description changed: Binary package hint: update-manager There are three places, where the update-manager states the download size of an update: -For every package itself -For all packages together -During download The first two and the third one differ. (see attachment - the total and the per-package difference has been fixed in the meantime, the difference between update-manager main window and the progress windows still exists) When doing an update with update-manager some numbers displayed on screen come from update-manager and some from apt. And now apt is displaying the numbers with decimal kilos (K=1000), and update-manager is displaying the numbers with binary kilos (K=1024). Even if the float problem is solved, this still gives a difference in display of about 4.8% for Megabyte numbers. (see some more details in my comment #9 above and some of the attached pictures). Before this bug is set to 'Fix Released' I would like to raise the question if it would make sense to consistently use one and the same factor for kilo/mega representation throughout all package management programs. This could be done either by changing humanize_size to decimal as well, or changing apt/apt-pkg/strutl.cc to binary, or even by totally eliminating humanize_size and using also the apt subroutines in update- manager. - - As far as I can see there is even another weakness in humanize_size (at - least in older versions, I have not checked the most recent ones yet): - the localization of the decimal separator is not correct and always - displayed as '.' even in 'decimal point is comma' local settings as with - German language.
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