Le 06.03.2012 11:33, David Kalnischkies a écrit :
> On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 15:35, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org> wrote:
>> So apt should either:
>>
>> a) gracefully fallback on short translations when it fails to
>> uncompress/parse the Translation packages;
>> b) Bump its Suggests: bzip to a {Pre-}Depends on bzip2 / libbz2-1.0 (if
>> sufficient) to be able to actually download and decompress
>> Translation-*.bz2 files (which are the only Translation-* files on the
>> Debian mirrors network).
>
> Neither is a good solution, especially b) is a complete overreaction.
As long as we can agree on the issue, I don't insist on apt maintainers
using my proposed solutions, eh... What matters to me is that the d-i /
apt combo can work and it currently doesn't.
> The problem is here that some (yes, neither all nor many) mirrors try content-
> negotiation for the request of Translation-en even though the requesting
> client (apt in this case) hasn't indicated that it would support this.
I'm afraid I don't understand.
Are there mirrors that have the long descriptions available in another
format than .bz2 ? Or are you saying that some mirrors send
Translation-*.bz2 files with anything else than Content-Type:
application/x-bzip2 in their HTTP headers ?
Cheers,
OdyX
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