Martin Eberhard Schauer <martin.e.scha...@gmx.de> writes: > The changes have ill side-effects: > - DDTP/DDTSS is partially broken (1). The Database has $(nr_of_packages) > new entrys since 01-22 containing just the short description. > - These (untranslated) one-liners is what one gets visiting (2), e.g. (3). > - There are no new Translation-xx files (4). > - In (5) there is the link why it was done: (6). IMHO one part of the > reasoning is > not really convincing. > > ... and also enables non-English-speaking users (and eventually > multi-arch enabled APT) to save on download size, as they no longer > need to download a language that is of no use to them or is already > there.
But I need to download binary-amd64/Packages, binary-i386/Packages, binary-armel/Packages, binary-mipsel/Packages. That is 4 times nearly identical sets of long descriptions. Now I only need to download the english "translation" once. > Actually most of the users have to read the English > descriptions. Only Italian > people are lucky enough to have more than 55% translated. > > Cheers, > Martin > > 1: http://lists.debian.org/debian-i18n/2012/02/msg00007.html > 2: http://packages.debian.org > 3: http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=names&keywords=manpages-de > 4: http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/sid/main/i18n/ > 5: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2012/01/msg00614.html > 6: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/11/msg00103.html MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ipjgs3de.fsf@frosties.localnet
