On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:27:03PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote: Hi David, sorry for the huge delay.
> Synopsis: > This option can be used to define which languagecode apt will > try to download for the Translations. > The default value is "environment" which let apt at runtime choose a > languagecode from LC_MESSAGES, for me here with > LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8" > it will use "de" - and will try to download Translation-de from the archives. > Your "false" setting forces apt to try to download Translation-false -- > which doesn't exist, so it has maybe the desired effect, but true will > also not work (or not in a way someone could expect)... Practicaly I've set it to "none" for which in turn there is a check in apt-pkg/indexfile.cc. So at least I didn't just dream about the possibility to disable the translation download. ;) > This should be documented, yes, but the APT team intend to deprecate > this configuration-option in favor of a new and more general setting > to support also multiply Translation downloads which seems to be needed > to get the ball rolling in the "Removing long desc from Package files" [0] > again - but as this change is an abi-break (best would be also an api-break) > the APT team wants to collect a few of these breakers before breaking > unstable for a few days... reasonable, doesn't it? Ok. Sven -- If God passed a mic to me to speak I'd say stay in bed, world Sleep in peace [The Cardigans - 03:45: No sleep] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org