Re: Description-less Packages indices
Martin Eberhard Schauer <Martin.E.Schauer@gmx.de> writes:
> The changes have ill side-effects:
> - DDTP/DDTSS is partially broken (1). The Database has $(nr_of_packages)
> new entrys since 01-22 containing just the short description.
> - These (untranslated) one-liners is what one gets visiting (2), e.g. (3).
> - There are no new Translation-xx files (4).
> - In (5) there is the link why it was done: (6). IMHO one part of the
> reasoning is
> not really convincing.
>
> ... and also enables non-English-speaking users (and eventually
> multi-arch enabled APT) to save on download size, as they no longer
> need to download a language that is of no use to them or is already
> there.
But I need to download binary-amd64/Packages, binary-i386/Packages,
binary-armel/Packages, binary-mipsel/Packages. That is 4 times nearly
identical sets of long descriptions. Now I only need to download the
english "translation" once.
> Actually most of the users have to read the English
> descriptions. Only Italian
> people are lucky enough to have more than 55% translated.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
> 1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-i18n/2012/02/msg00007.html
> 2: http://packages.debian.org
> 3: http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=manpages-de
> 4: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/i18n/
> 5: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/01/msg00614.html
> 6: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/11/msg00103.html
MfG
Goswin
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