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Re: missing package long descriptions



CC'ing deity@lists.debian.org

On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 08:39:42PM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> 
> Now, when I change the sources.list to point to local file:///
> sources, commenting out the iiNet sources, and _not_ doing an apt-get
> update, then package long descriptions disappear! Even though the
> Translation-en files are still all there.

WEIRD! So the sources.list is read even if you don't do an apt-get
update? 

Maybe an apt-cache show <pkg-name> does some extra work.

This seems like a bug to me, I'd expect no changes to take place
*UNLESS* one does an 'apt-get update'


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