Bug#880004: extended-description-is-empty doesn't catch debug packages

[s3v <c0llapsed@yahoo.it>]

Control: clone -1 -2
Control: reassign -2 debian-i18n
Control: retitle -2 "[DDTSS] Unable to translate packages with missing extended description"


Thanks for your quick reply.

On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 12:15:10 +0100 Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> wrote:
> Thanks for the report. I note that these are -dbg packages. From
> the source:
> 
>             # Ignore debug packages with empty "extended" description
>             # "debug symbols for pkg foo" is generally descriptive
>             # enough.

Yes, this makes sense.

This issue was spotted after attempting to translate descriptions of binutils *-dbg
packages by using DDTSS.
Packages with empty extended description are not handled properly by DDTSS and
fetching them causes some troubles (translation interface is quite broken). For
reference, see [1] and [2] (login required).
Maybe the assumption that packages with empty long description would never reach
the archive was made.

I clone&reassign this bug so that @l10n-devel folks will be informed about this
problem.

> Not at all! Well spotted - please keep looking for other problems :)

I will do it (after digging more in deep before opening something else :) ).


Thanks again!


[1] https://ddtp2.debian.net/ddtss/index.cgi/it/translate/binutils-mips-linux-gnu-dbg
[2] https://ddtp2.debian.net/ddtss/index.cgi/fr/translate/libbinutils-dbg