Bug#550564: apt: APT::Acquire::Translation not listed in the manpage
tags 550564 - patch
thanks
Hello Sven,
first of all: Thanks for your bugreport & the patch!
> I've attached a minimal patch that would add it to the
> list. Though I'm unsure if it's ok to add it as "Acquire::Translation"
> because so far there seems to be no sub group for APT::Acquire.
Unfortunately this option is not a boolean (true/false, yes/no, whatever)
option, so your patch is wrong on this and therefore i removed the patch
tag - but again thanks for trying: patches helping alot in bug triaging. :)
And APT has unfortunately a lot of un(der)documented features...
Synopsis:
This option can be used to define which languagecode apt will
try to download for the Translations.
The default value is "environment" which let apt at runtime choose a
languagecode from LC_MESSAGES, for me here with
LC_MESSAGES="de_DE.UTF-8"
it will use "de" - and will try to download Translation-de from the archives.
Your "false" setting forces apt to try to download Translation-false --
which doesn't exist, so it has maybe the desired effect, but true will
also not work (or not in a way someone could expect)...
This should be documented, yes, but the APT team intend to deprecate
this configuration-option in favor of a new and more general setting
to support also multiply Translation downloads which seems to be needed
to get the ball rolling in the "Removing long desc from Package files" [0]
again - but as this change is an abi-break (best would be also an api-break)
the APT team wants to collect a few of these breakers before breaking
unstable for a few days... reasonable, doesn't it?
( As this feature hasn't a associated bugreport currently i will let this
bug open for now and treat it as the associated bugreport. )
Best regards / Mit freundlichen Grüßen,
David "DonKult" Kalnischkies
[0] Start: http://lists.debian.org/deity/2009/08/msg00073.html
My summary and currently last message in the thread:
http://lists.debian.org/deity/2009/08/msg00112.html
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