Am Sun, Mar 22, 2026 at 02:59:46PM +0100, schrieb Michael Prokop: > I also stumbled upon this, with apt v3.0.3 on trixie, because a > transitional package wasn't displayed as such, given the wrong > package description showed up.
This is probably the result of https://salsa.debian.org/apt-team/apt/-/commit/b24d6a1f3aff12f32f6a7024aac6961089f99719 As the descriptions will have the same (empty) md5 value they are considered the same and will hence be shared across all versions 'with the same description' (as identified by md5). Requiring all repositories to generate their Packages files with a Description-md5 seems kinda silly – even apt-ftparchive does not do it. It does if you tell it to generate a Translation-en file as its main point is linking translations together and many (bigger) repositories split out the long descriptions in this way, but for the smaller ones it seems overkill. I suppose we could simply go with handling empty md5 explicitly by not merging descriptions in that case. It's a bit wasteful I guess, but so be it. The alternative would be to generate some value (it doesn't need to be MD5) and leave the rest of the code unchanged. I think part of the motivation to remove this was also that it "wasted" cache generation runtime for little practical gain. Best regards David Kalnischkies
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