Bug#641967: apt downloads Translation-de even if Acquire::Languages=none

[David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 10:52, Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:
> I've put this in my apt.conf, because the manual page apt.conf say “To
> force apt to use no Translation file use the setting
> Acquire::Languages=none,” but apt-get still downloads translation files.
> I want to disable them completely.
>
> Acquire {
>    Languages "none";
> };
>
> % apt-config dump |grep Lan
> Acquire::Languages "";
> Acquire::Languages:: "none";
> Acquire::Languages:: "de";
>
> % ls /var/lib/apt/lists/*i18*
> /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_i18n_Index
> /var/lib/apt/lists/ftp.de.debian.org_debian_dists_unstable_main_i18n_Translation-de

Thanks for the bugreport!

Indeed there is a special-case missing here and now that we have a bug
report for it i might be able to not forget it again. ;)


Until its fixed just remove the /var/lib/apt/lists/*_i18n_Translation-* file(s)
and it should work™ as advertised.

(APT picks up languages from these files as otherwise scripts running apt
 under LANG=C will cause problems like an incomplete binary cache --
 pretty much the same problem for any multi-language system, …)


Best regards

David Kalnischkies