Bug#1001819: apt: how to set option lang to an empty list in sources.list?

[Julian Andres Klode <jak@debian.org>]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2021 at 11:22:59PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Source: apt
> Version: 2.3.13
> Severity: normal
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'd like to disable downloading translations for a single package
> repository (which doesn't have them and therefore produces a lot of
> noise). Adding option '[ lang= ]' to the corresponding sources.list
> line seems the natural solution, but I cannot find any syntax that
> achieves my goal "do not download any translations for this repository"
> apt-get always errors out with some kind of "missing value".

If you lookup the Acquire::Languages mentioned in sources.list(5) in
apt.conf(5), you'll find that the correct answer is `lang=none`.

As always, empty means default, so not being able to set it is
irrelevant.
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