On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 01:28:59PM +0100, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 02:11:27PM +0200, Michael Bramer wrote: > > - This make extra load for the translation of this description. > > It does and for that reason I'm including debian-i18n in this discussion. > For the record I support the idea that dynamic descriptions should be > discouraged unless there is a sound technical reason.
It may well also cause problems for multiarch. apt supports moving long descriptions to an architecture-independent Translations-en file, which makes it significantly more bandwidth-efficient to download Packages files for multiple architectures. Obviously this only works correctly if descriptions are identical across architectures (which is, fortunately, mostly true). -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-java-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110819140615.gb8...@riva.dynamic.greenend.org.uk
