On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 02:12:26PM +0000, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:54:53 +0200, Dirk Weinhardt wrote: > > > I am about to install a particular package from wheezy on a squeeze > > system. Packages from wheezy should be pinned to a priority of 50. While > > configuring and testing apt I found that apt searches for German > > translations although the system's locale is en_US.utf8 and pinning > > priorities seem not to be applied to translations. > > > > I have added wheezy main to sources.list: deb > > http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy main > > > > And I have assigned a pin priority of 50 to testing in apt's > > preferences: Package: * > > Pin: release a=testing > > Pin-Priority: 50 > > > > The system's local initially was de_DE and I have changed that to > > en_US.utf8 by running "dpkg-reconfigure locales". "locale" shows > > "LANG=en_US.utf8" and "locale -a" does not list any de locale. > > > > Why is apt still querying German translations and how can that be > > avoided? > > (...) > > Mmm, interesting question. > > I have "es" (Spanish) and "en" (English) locales in my wheezy system and > get sporadic updates for both -sometimes Spanish, sometimes English and > sometimes for both- package descriptions but true is that I never paid > attention on this because I guess it only affects to "descriptions" not > the packages nor application themselves :-? > > Anyway, I would also like to know how this is managed, I mean, if > language package descriptions updates depend on the number of locale(s) > defined in the system or if it takes their settings from another source. According to 'man apt.conf', Acquire::Languages can be set to declare which translations one wants downloading. The pseudo-language "environment" (which is part of the default setting) specifies that apt should check $LC_MESSAGES. However, if this doesn't include a "de" language, then it might actually be that Acquire::Languages was set at install time. Check /etc/apt/apt-conf.d/* for Acquire::Languages. > > Greetings, > > -- > Camaleón > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > Archive: [🔎] pan.2011.09.01.14.12.26@gmail.com">http://lists.debian.org/[🔎] pan.2011.09.01.14.12.26@gmail.com > -- Darac Marjal
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