Bug#550564: apt: APT::Acquire::Translation not listed in the manpage
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
Bug#550564: apt: APT::Acquire::Translation not listed in the manpage
tags 550564 - patch thanks Hello Sven, first of all: Thanks for your bugreport the patch! I've attached a minimal patch that would add it to the list. Though I'm unsure if it's ok to add it as Acquire::Translation because so far there seems to be no sub group for APT::Acquire. Unfortunately this option is not a boolean (true/false, yes/no, whatever) option, so your patch is wrong on this and therefore i removed the patch tag - but again thanks for trying: patches helping alot in bug triaging. :) And APT has unfortunately a lot of un(der)documented features... 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)... 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? ( As this feature hasn't a associated bugreport currently i will let this bug open for now and treat it as the associated bugreport. ) Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen, David DonKult Kalnischkies [0] Start: http://lists.debian.org/deity/2009/08/msg00073.html My summary and currently last message in the thread: http://lists.debian.org/deity/2009/08/msg00112.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#550564: apt: APT::Acquire::Translation not listed in the manpage
Package: apt Version: 0.7.24 Severity: minor Tags: patch Hi, I couldn't find APT::Acquire::Translation to be documented in the manpage. I've attached a minimal patch that would add it to the list. Though I'm unsure if it's ok to add it as Acquire::Translation because so far there seems to be no sub group for APT::Acquire. Sven === modified file 'doc/apt.conf.5.xml' --- doc/apt.conf.5.xml 2009-09-25 07:49:45 + +++ doc/apt.conf.5.xml 2009-10-11 07:26:09 + @@ -132,7 +132,12 @@ parsing package lists. The internal default is the architecture apt was compiled for./para/listitem /varlistentry - + + varlistentrytermAcquire::Translation/term + listitemparaDownload translated package descriptions; default is set to true. + /para/listitem + /varlistentry + varlistentrytermDefault-Release/term listitemparaDefault release to install packages from if more than one version available. Contains release name, codename or release version. Examples: 'stable', 'testing', 'unstable', 'lenny', 'squeeze', '4.0', '5.0*'. See also apt-preferences;./para/listitem
