Re: missing package long descriptions

[Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net>]

On 1/26/14, Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sun 26 Jan 2014 at 03:03:05 +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
>
>> Why would the Translation-en file disappear when I use the
>> Internet-based sources.list entry?
>
> What is the output of 'ls -l /var/lib/apt/lists/'?

$ ls -l /var/lib/apt/lists/
total 55204
-rw-r----- 1 root root        0 Nov 18  2012 lock
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root     4096 Jan 25 23:30 partial
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   218158 Jan 21 14:07
_public_debian_debian_dists_sid_contrib_binary-amd64_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   163677 Jan 14 13:04
_public_debian_debian_dists_sid_contrib_i18n_Translation-en
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 32761512 Jan 21 14:04
_public_debian_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-amd64_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21789224 Jan 21 07:04
_public_debian_debian_dists_sid_main_i18n_Translation-en
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   399698 Jan 21 14:08
_public_debian_debian_dists_sid_non-free_binary-amd64_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   346096 Jan 21 07:04
_public_debian_debian_dists_sid_non-free_i18n_Translation-en
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   204438 Jan 21 07:51
_public_debian_debian_dists_sid_Release
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      836 Jan 21 07:51
_public_debian_debian_dists_sid_Release.gpg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   585598 Jan 19 19:04
_public_debian_debian-mm_dists_sid_main_binary-amd64_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     6486 Jan 15 06:47
_public_debian_debian-mm_dists_sid_non-free_binary-amd64_Packages
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    26141 Jan 21 20:02
_public_debian_debian-mm_dists_sid_Release
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      181 Jan 21 20:02
_public_debian_debian-mm_dists_sid_Release.gpg

I'm currently home and running on local repo.