Bug#550564: apt: APT::Acquire::Translation not listed in the manpage
On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 10:27:03PM +0200, David Kalnischkies wrote:
Hi David,
sorry for the huge delay.
> 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)...
Practicaly I've set it to "none" for which in turn there is a check in
apt-pkg/indexfile.cc. So at least I didn't just dream about the possibility
to disable the translation download. ;)
> 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?
Ok.
Sven
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