elfprince The estimated download time isn't a new thing. I think some of the calculations have been updated to be more accurate though, and for very small packages like this (191 KB) it doesn't update before the download is already over (thus only the placeholder dashes instead of values). So no "programming things" (by which I guess you mean tests/experiments) happening here.
As for your original error: To be quite honest, I don't really know what happened there. I couldn't reproduce that error on my system right now (and didn't see it when I updated the package). Since the Zukitwo theme uses symlinks to the Zukitre files for many of its parts, I can only assume that something went wrong with the delta generation for those symlinks, and this is why a reinstall fixed it (grasping at straws here).
the packages were not listed in consecutive order, many whizzed by without even being downloaded. Same with the installation process.
What exactly do you mean by that? Nothing should have changed in that regard. The list of packages to be downloaded (shown at the start) is alphabetical. After that it of course installs them in order of dependency, so not necessarily alphabetical. Of course every package is being downloaded, unless you already have cached it for some reason (e.g. during a reinstall, or after manually installing an older version while the new version is still in your system's cache).
