Bug#705580: Only *specific* description seems to be missing

[Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>]

On 16/05/13 at 10:37 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi again,
> 
> I somehow have the impression, that the number of missing descriptions
> is silently growing.  It seems that the problem only concerns the English
> long descriptions.  To verify this thesis I did
> 
> udd=> SELECT release, language, count(*) from descriptions where long_description = '' group by release, language order by count;
>          release          | language | count 
> --------------------------+----------+-------
>  squeeze-backports-sloppy | en       |    17
>  squeeze                  | en       |   117
>  wheezy-backports         | en       |   201
>  wheezy-proposed-updates  | en       |   293
>  squeeze-proposed-updates | en       |   448
>  squeeze-backports        | en       |  2668
>  experimental             | en       |  7773
>  wheezy                   | en       | 37335
>  jessie                   | en       | 39255
>  sid                      | en       | 41028
> 
> I removed the entry of
>    Translation-en.bz2
> from
>    /srv/udd.debian.org/mirrors/ddtp/sid
> and rerun
>    update-and-run.sh ddtp
> which afterwards leaded to
> 
> udd=> SELECT release, language, count(*) from descriptions where long_description = '' group by release, language order by count;
>          release          | language | count 
> --------------------------+----------+-------
>  squeeze-backports-sloppy | en       |    17
>  wheezy-updates           | en       |   111
>  squeeze                  | en       |   117
>  wheezy-proposed-updates  | en       |   266
>  squeeze-proposed-updates | en       |   446
>  squeeze-backports        | en       |  2668
> (6 Zeilen)
> 
> I admit I'm a bit astonished that wheezy and jessie are fixed as well
> after enforcing rereading the english translations for sid.  I'll rerun
> this counting of missing descriptions the next couple of days to see
> whether and how they increase.
> 
> Kind regards

Hi,

Note that archive_gatherer also manipulates the descriptions table, and
adds english translations. I think that it's wrong that both the
ddtp gatherer and the archive gatherer change english translations, no?

What do you suggest?

Lucas