Daniel Burrows wrote: > Could someone explain exactly what this bug is about? At first glance > it seems to ask for a feature that's already present (displaying the > current rate of download).
pkgsel uses the APT::Status-Fd interface to display download and install progress in a progress bar in the d-i UI. While aptitude actually does a better job of displaying progress via the statusfd than apt-get (it includes the download time estimate, which apt-get for some reason does not), it is missing the file transfer rate. You can reproduce this outside of d-i with a command like: debconf-apt-progress -- aptitude -y install x-window-system -- see shy jo
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