On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org> wrote:
> It's another instance of duplication - why retain the long description > in the Packages file while a translated version also exists from DDTP? > Probably better for the description to be removed from the Packages > file completely and the DDTP one contains the translated version and > English ones for those with missing or outdated translations. That way, > apt spends less time parsing the (smaller) Packages file when doing > ordinary stuff like package installation and only needs to look at the > DDTP information when specifically called as 'apt-cache search'. One issue is that many people will have disabled downloading translations so they'll need to change their configuration from none to en: APT::Acquire::Translation "none"; Since en will now be a "Translation", perhaps a different config item is more appropriate: APT::Acquire::Description "en"; -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-i18n-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
