Hi again *, given that my previous mail was dropped by every list expect debian-l10n-devel (which dropped it into moderation queue) [1] let me be offensive and just forward it to debian-devel again (as i haven't the time to bother [various] listmasters now) where at least Eugenes mail ended up, even through his was dropped by other lists, too…
All i can say about that: "Et tu, deity@l.d.o?" debian-l10n-devel is properly right: Too many to-addresses… Best regards David Kalnischkies [1] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-l10n-devel/2011-November/001457.html ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Kalnischkies <kalnischk...@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 21:22 Subject: Re: Description-less packages file To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, debian-...@lists.debian.org, debian-rele...@lists.debian.org, de...@lists.debian.org, aptit...@packages.debian.org, debian...@lists.debian.org, debian-l10n-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org, debt...@packages.debian.org, dctrl-to...@packages.debian.org, debian-services-ad...@lists.debian.org, c...@packages.debian.org, synap...@packages.debian.org Hi *, First of all: Yeah! ;) On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 16:39, Joerg Jaspert <jo...@debian.org> wrote: > I just merged a patch from Ansgar to generate the Packages files without > the English description embedded inside them. Instead they are now > written into a new file, the "English Translation" file in > "main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2". They thus appear alongside all other > translated descriptions as "just another language". apt & co will (or > should) just download those Translation files to show the description, > as they do already for all other languages. Back in the good old days in 2009 [0] in which we discussed that feature my impression was that we want to remove the long description from the Packages files, not the complete description - mostly for compatibility reasons indeed, but having some sort of description available even without translations doesn't feel that wrong - at least for me. Anyway, the apt in squeeze supports the removal of long descriptions in the way it was described back then and is since recently used by ubuntu as I was told. The complete removal is NOT supported in a way that it will even do random stuff (aka segfaults) see #647590. The bugreport claims that aptitude works, which I personally doubt a bit as it should use the very same codepaths, but even if it would I assume that other libapt users are failing. I guess other applications/script make assumptions about the availability of a Description, too. So, long story short: Is this going to be the implementation ftp-master chooses for wheezy or are we getting a short description back? And while we are on it: Could we get i18n/Index (back) and have it look like a "normal" Release file instead of this ".bz2-only"-listing? (because apt/wheezy really uses it to avoid requesting not-existent files) Best regards David Kalnischkies [0] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-l10n-devel/2009-August/000507.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caaz6_fbargde_t0mof8jmuodmrxi0atd4dzqcbykxwf+xr4...@mail.gmail.com
