Bug#771604: tracker.debian.org: short description contains long description

[Christophe Siraut <d@tobald.eu.org>]

Hi,

Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> In fact, I even wonder why we're getting short description at all...
> since we're not accessing data directly via AptCache and instead we
> are parsing the downloaded Packages files.

We could adapt AptCache (in core.utils.packages) and use apt_pkg for
retrieving version and descriptions (short and long) for binary
packages. But then it seems more coherent to use to same mechanism for
retrieving source packages informations. I wonder why we opted for
manually parsing the Packages and Sources files in the first place, and
what would be the impact on performances.

Christophe