Bug#597925: apt-cache forgets to display some short descriptions

[Cyril Brulebois <cyril.brulebois@kerlabs.com>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.8.5
Severity: normal

Hi,

quite surprisingly, some short descriptions aren't displayed:
| $ LC_ALL=C apt-cache search syslog perl      
| collectd-core - statistics collection and monitoring daemon (core system)
| libgetargs-long-perl - Perl module to parse long function arguments
| liblog-dispatchouli-perl - simple wrapper around Log::Dispatch
| liblogger-syslog-perl - Logger::Syslog -- an simple wrapper over Sys::Syslog for Perl
| libnet-server-perl - An extensible, general perl server engine
| libparse-syslog-perl - Perl module for parsing syslog entries
| libsys-syslog-perl - Perl interface to the UNIX syslog(3) calls
| libunix-syslog-perl - 
| perl - 

That seems to match the packages for which a French translation is
available.

Mraw,
KiBi.

-- Package-specific info:

-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --


-- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) --


-- System Information:
Debian Release: sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring  2010.08.28       GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii  gnupg                   1.4.10-4         GNU privacy guard - a free PGP rep
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-6         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.5-20100103-1 GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6              4.4.4-15         The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

apt recommends no packages.

Versions of packages apt suggests:
pn  apt-doc                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  aptitude                      0.6.3-3.1  terminal-based package manager (te
ii  bzip2                         1.0.5-6    high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.15.8.5   Debian package development tools
ii  lzma                          4.43-14    Compression method of 7z format in
ii  python-apt                    0.7.97.1   Python interface to libapt-pkg

-- no debconf information