On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:15:14AM +0200, Sebastian Heinlein wrote: > Package: python-apt > Version: 0.7.12.1 > Severity: important > > Translated descriptions of packages are not shown. > [...] > > unstable:~$ python > Python 2.5.4 (r254:67916, Feb 17 2009, 20:16:45) > [GCC 4.3.3] on linux2 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. > >>> import apt > >>> apt.Cache()["synaptic"].candidate.description > u'Synaptic is a graphical package management tool based on GTK+ and APT. > Synaptic enables you to install, upgrade and remove software packages in a > user friendly way.\n\nBesides these basic functions the following features > are provided:\n* Search and filter the list of available packages\n* Perform > smart system upgrades\n* Fix broken package dependencies\n* Edit the list of > used repositories (sources.list)\n* Download the latest changelog of a > package\n* Configure packages through the debconf system\n* Browse all > available documentation related to a package (dwww is required)\n'
You forgot to call locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, ''). This is a requirement to get translations. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.
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