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Bug#647658: marked as done (Description-less packages file)

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has caused the Debian Bug report #647658,
regarding Description-less packages file
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Package: release.debian.org
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: britney

On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 22:39 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> I just merged a patch from Ansgar to generate the Packages files without
> the English description embedded inside them. Instead they are now
> written into a new file, the "English Translation" file in
> "main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2". They thus appear alongside all other
> translated descriptions as "just another language". apt & co will (or
> should) just download those Translation files to show the description,
> as they do already for all other languages.

>From a grep through britney and release-tools, the only obvious use of
Description I can see is in b2's lib/dpkg.c::read_paragraph().  We
should check whether that code is actually still relevant and fix it up
to use a better test if so.

Adam

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On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 20:50 +0000, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-11-03 at 22:39 +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> > I just merged a patch from Ansgar to generate the Packages files without
> > the English description embedded inside them.
[...]
> >From a grep through britney and release-tools, the only obvious use of
> Description I can see is in b2's lib/dpkg.c::read_paragraph().  We
> should check whether that code is actually still relevant and fix it up
> to use a better test if so.

After one of Niels's tidying sprees, read_paragraph() no longer exists
and none of the remainder of the britney code uses the description
field, so this should be fine.

Regards,

Adam

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