Hello world, I don't know if I really got everyone who should have a copy of this mail in my CC list, so please forward it to wherever you think I am missing. Thanks.
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. This lets us save quite a bit of space on our mirrors by not repeating them as many times as we have architectures - and also enables non-English-speaking users (and eventually multi-arch enabled APT) to save on download size, as they no longer need to download a language that is of no use to them or is already there. As this is is a larger changeset we did not switch the official dists/ tree directly. Instead we are providing files generated in this way over at [1] for you to test with and report bugs you find in this implementation or in the handling of it in whatever tool breaks down. That location is updated right during dinstall so should always contain current information. Provided there are no showstoppers turning up we intend to switch the official dists/ tree one month from now. [1] http://ftp-master.debian.org/newdists/ -- bye, Joerg It’s not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.
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