Bug#669880: apt: Lack of translations should not be an error
severity 669880 important
thanks
On Sun, 22 Apr 2012, Christian PERRIER wrote:
> Quoting Santiago Vila (sanvila@unex.es):
>
> > IMHO, this should never happen. If Translation-en is available, then a
> > missing Translation-es (or any other translation file) should never
> > be a fatal error.
>
> Hello Santiago!
>
> Well, that's debatable: you asked APT to get Spanish translations. It
> cannot download them. I think it's then normal that it fails..:-)
Hello Christian! I have retitled the bug (yesterday) and removed the
word "fatal" from the subject. I still think that things like this
LANG=klingon; ls --help; echo $?
should not "fail". IMHO, if it fails it should do it "gracefully".
> I don't think this qualifies as an RC bug...but leave it up to APT maintainers.
Ok, I also leave it to APT maintainers. I have checked, and apt in
testing (0.8.15.10) does not work well enough with my partial mirror
if bzip2 is not installed.
At this point I can't really tell what's worse, so I'm downgrading.
Thanks.
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