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,
--
Carles Pina i Estany
https://carles.pina.cat | [email protected] | [email protected]
