Bug#1026076: gnome-software: Download size is unknown for apps from Debian archive

[Danial Behzadi]

Package: gnome-software
Version: 43.2-3
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

For apps from Debian archive, The Download size tile below the app
description in unknown. It couldn't be so hard to fix this as we already
have download size for packages in apt lists and it could be even port
to upstream. It has no problems with apps via flatpak.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.0.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=fa_IR, LC_CTYPE=fa_IR (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-software depends on:
ii appstream 0.15.5-1
ii apt-config-icons 0.15.5-1
ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.40.0-3
ii gnome-software-common 43.2-3
ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 43.0-1
ii libadwaita-1-0 1.2.0-1
ii libappstream4 0.15.5-1
ii libc6 2.36-6
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-6
ii libfwupd2 1.8.8-1
ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.10+dfsg-1
ii libglib2.0-0 2.74.2-1
ii libgtk-4-1 4.8.2+ds-4
ii libgtk3-perl 0.038-3
ii libgudev-1.0-0 237-2
ii libjson-glib-1.0-0 1.6.6-1
ii libmalcontent-0-0 0.11.0-3
ii libpackagekit-glib2-18 1.2.6-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.50.10+ds-1
ii libpolkit-gobject-1-0 122-1
ii libsoup-3.0-0 3.2.2-1
ii libxmlb2 0.3.8-1
ii packagekit 1.2.6-1
ii software-properties-gtk 0.96.20.2-2.1

Versions of packages gnome-software recommends:
ii fwupd 1.8.8-1

Versions of packages gnome-software suggests:
pn apt-config-icons-hidpi <none>
pn gnome-software-plugin-flatpak <none>
pn gnome-software-plugin-snap <none>

-- no debconf information

[Matthias Klumpp]

Hi!

Am Mi., 14. Dez. 2022 um 11:51 Uhr schrieb Danial Behzadi
<dani....@ubuntu.com>:
> [...] It couldn't be so hard to fix this as we already

> have download size for packages in apt lists and it could be even port

> to upstream. [...]

It's actually not that easy, because a package has a bunch of
dependencies that would be needed to be included in the total download
size, so we would need to resolve the dependency graph for the
to-be-installed package first, and then calculate the total, which
isn't that fast.
That being said, it can be done (as a background task if it may take
longer), or we could display only the size of the currently referenced
package. At least the latter should already be the case, and
PackageKit has that information, so it's a bit odd that it isn't
shown.

Cheers,
Matthias

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