Re: Removing long descriptions / english from Packages files

2009-08-19 Thread David Kalnischkies
Hello everyone, First of all an apology for the late response from the APT Team side, but Michael Vogt is currently a bit busy with work, family stuff and advising and helping me, so the intern discussion last a bit longer and i don't want to enter the discussion with my half baked ideas. ;) Seco

Re: Removing long descriptions / english from Packages files

2009-08-17 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > PS: anyone talked to the cupt maintainer about this? > Hello there. Description-md5: cupt doesn't use it at all. Harmless. Moving English descriptions out from Packages: I support this. I don't expect any breakage for en_{US,GB}.UTF-8 locales' users, but however if i

Re: Removing long descriptions / english from Packages files

2009-08-17 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joerg Jaspert writes: > On 11841 March 1977, Nicolas François wrote: > >>> which should be easy enough to output. When such an output file is >>> configured, the descriptions should no longer get written to the >>> Packages files. >> I'm not sure that will be sufficient, unless the Description-md

Re: [Debian-l10n-devel] Removing long descriptions / english from Packages files

2009-08-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Nicolas François [090813 10:14]: > > Think like s/md5/sha256/ or so :) > > That should be doable;) > > Note that the probability of a collision (Description are controlled by > trusted people), and the consequences of a collision (a wrong long > description is displayed), do not make me too afra

Re: Removing long descriptions / english from Packages files

2009-08-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Nicolas François wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:55:04AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Why not inject the english version in the Translation file for all missing > > translations? That way you download only one Translation file and you have > > the usual behaviour. And

Re: Removing long descriptions / english from Packages files

2009-08-13 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:55:04AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > Why not inject the english version in the Translation file for all missing > translations? That way you download only one Translation file and you have > the usual behaviour. And you can see programmatically that it's not

Re: [Debian-l10n-devel] Removing long descriptions / english from Packages files

2009-08-13 Thread Nicolas François
Hello, On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 09:23:23AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 11841 March 1977, Nicolas François wrote: > > >> which should be easy enough to output. When such an output file is > >> configured, the descriptions should no longer get written to the > >> Packages files. > > I'm not sur

Re: Removing long descriptions / english from Packages files

2009-08-13 Thread Raphael Hertzog
I'm jumping late in the discussion, please bear with me if it has been answered before. I'll leave Guillem comment on the dpkg/dselect impact. On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > * We may also need to decide what should be the user interface when a > >description translation is not

Re: Removing long descriptions / english from Packages files

2009-08-13 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 11841 March 1977, Nicolas François wrote: >> which should be easy enough to output. When such an output file is >> configured, the descriptions should no longer get written to the >> Packages files. > I'm not sure that will be sufficient, unless the Description-md5 field is > added to the Packa

Re: Removing long descriptions / english from Packages files

2009-08-12 Thread Nicolas François
Hi Jörg, (I'm adding dpkg. See the original mail there: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/debian-l10n-devel/2009-August/000507.html) On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 12:47:46AM +0200, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > [...] > It will also mean changes to apt-ftparchive, so lets get to the apt > maintainers: >