Bug#669008: apt-get doesn't download translations

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 14:44, sergio <mailbox@sergio.spb.ru> wrote:
> apt-get from sid and wheezy doesn't download translations and it's not
> possible to read full description. apt from experimental doesn't have
> this problem, but the aim of this bug it to prevent freezing buggy apt.

Do you have bzip2 installed?

Current squeeze/wheezy/sid versions need it to uncompress the
Translation files (as they are only available as bz2 compressed files).

In experimental i implemented a few days ago usage of libbz2 so APT
doesn't need bzip2 anymore for this (dpkg depends on this library).

So, is it maybe that simple?

For the record: The version currently in experimental is planed for upload
to unstable really really soon now and is planed to end up in wheezy.


Best regards

David Kalnischkies