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Package: apt
Version: 3.1.15
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainers,
Short version: in apt 3.1.15 or 3.0.3 (sid and trixie at the time of
opening the bug): the user might not have the long description of the
packages if a "wrong" Translation language is set; but the user doesn't
see any error message at any time during normal operations.
Steps to reproduce:
$ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
$ sudo apt -o Acquire::Languages=xxxxx update
With the second command: no error is displayed. But when doing:
$ apt show apt
The Description: is a one-liner instead of having the full description.
For some reason, a system that I have ended up having an invalid
language set via a apt.conf.d file (similar but not exactly to the next
thing):
carles@pinux:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99translations
Acquire::Languages { "asdf"; };
carles@pinux:~$
But I didn't know that it was there. For a while I was wondering why the
full description was missing (specially when "$ apt update" didn't show
anything wrong, neither "apt show package" to say that the long
description wasn't there, etc.
Thank you very much,
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Carles Pina i Estany
https://carles.pina.cat | [email protected] | [email protected]
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--- Begin Message ---
On Sat, Feb 14, 2026 at 01:05:32PM +0100, Carles Pina i Estany wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 3.1.15
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainers,
>
> Short version: in apt 3.1.15 or 3.0.3 (sid and trixie at the time of
> opening the bug): the user might not have the long description of the
> packages if a "wrong" Translation language is set; but the user doesn't
> see any error message at any time during normal operations.
>
> Steps to reproduce:
>
> $ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
> $ sudo apt -o Acquire::Languages=xxxxx update
>
> With the second command: no error is displayed. But when doing:
>
> $ apt show apt
>
> The Description: is a one-liner instead of having the full description.
>
> For some reason, a system that I have ended up having an invalid
> language set via a apt.conf.d file (similar but not exactly to the next
> thing):
>
> carles@pinux:~$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99translations
> Acquire::Languages { "asdf"; };
> carles@pinux:~$
>
> But I didn't know that it was there. For a while I was wondering why the
> full description was missing (specially when "$ apt update" didn't show
> anything wrong, neither "apt show package" to say that the long
> description wasn't there, etc.
This is a feature, not a bug; repositories are not required to provide
translations.
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