Re: Description-less packages file

2012-02-04 Thread Andreas Tille
[Ansgar as OP in d-d-a in CC - please tell me where to direct this kind of questions to] Hi, when trying to import the new Translation files into UDD I realised that the files are containing useless duplicates with no reason. It might possibly not harm current applications but it might perfectl

Re: Description-less packages file

2012-01-27 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi, I noticed that we now have long descriptions somewhere else, however I somehow missed the consequence, that UDD now does not feature the English long descriptions as well. I have written the UDD importer for DDTP descriptions and noticed that the location where I was drawing the dscriptions f

Re: Description-less packages file

2011-11-15 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Joerg Jaspert writes: > I just merged a patch from Ansgar to generate the Packages files without > the English description embedded inside them. Instead they are now > written into a new file, the "English Translation" file in > "main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2". They thus appear alongside all other

Re: Description-less packages file

2011-11-15 Thread Steve McIntyre
Ansgar wrote: >Joey Hess writes: >> AFAICS, there are no diff files, so this increases the average apt-get update >> download size by 3.6 MB. >> >> Also, it seems unlikely this will ever allow apt to skip downloading the >> English files, unless translations somehow get to, and stay at 100% > >Swi

Re: Description-less packages file

2011-11-15 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Joey Hess writes: > AFAICS, there are no diff files, so this increases the average apt-get update > download size by 3.6 MB. > > Also, it seems unlikely this will ever allow apt to skip downloading the > English files, unless translations somehow get to, and stay at 100% Switching to xz compressi

Re: Description-less packages file

2011-11-14 Thread Joerg Jaspert
>> > AFAICS, there are no diff files, so this increases the average apt-get >> > update >> > download size by 3.6 MB. >> Yeah well, true. It's a place for testing, not for long term usage. :) > I'm referring to once it's in the archive, not the files for testing. Ah. >> And pdiff generation is

Re: Description-less packages file

2011-11-14 Thread Joey Hess
Joerg Jaspert wrote: > On 12664 March 1977, Joey Hess wrote: > > AFAICS, there are no diff files, so this increases the average apt-get > > update > > download size by 3.6 MB. > > Yeah well, true. It's a place for testing, not for long term usage. :) I'm referring to once it's in the archive, no

Re: Description-less packages file

2011-11-14 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 12664 March 1977, Joey Hess wrote: > AFAICS, there are no diff files, so this increases the average apt-get update > download size by 3.6 MB. Yeah well, true. It's a place for testing, not for long term usage. :) And pdiff generation is still a major PITA, even though someone started working on

Re: Description-less packages file

2011-11-14 Thread Joey Hess
AFAICS, there are no diff files, so this increases the average apt-get update download size by 3.6 MB. Also, it seems unlikely this will ever allow apt to skip downloading the English files, unless translations somehow get to, and stay at 100% -- see shy jo signature.asc Description: Digital s

Re: Description-less packages file

2011-11-13 Thread Vincent Danjean
Le 14/11/2011 02:20, Steve McIntyre a écrit : On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 10:39:02PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: I just merged a patch from Ansgar to generate the Packages files without the English description embedded inside them. Instead they are now written into a new file, the "English Translat

Re: Description-less packages file

2011-11-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 10:39:02PM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > >I just merged a patch from Ansgar to generate the Packages files without >the English description embedded inside them. Instead they are now >written into a new file, the "English Translation" file in >"main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2".

Re: Description-less packages file

2011-11-11 Thread Joerg Jaspert
On 12659 March 1977, David Kalnischkies wrote: > So, long story short: Is this going to be the implementation ftp-master > chooses for wheezy or are we getting a short description back? Ahwell, thats why we do have that over there in that extra place for people to check... :) I just merged Ansga

Re: Description-less packages file

2011-11-11 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hi, On 2011-11-11 17:02, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Could we just include the Translation-* files in the main Release > file instead? That would be nice to have. > Then they would also be protected from tampering, I > think they are not referenced in any signed file right now. They are. i18n/Ind

Re: Description-less packages file

2011-11-11 Thread Ansgar Burchardt
Hi, Am 09.11.2011 14:57, schrieb David Kalnischkies: So, long story short: Is this going to be the implementation ftp-master chooses for wheezy or are we getting a short description back? I did not know all details when I wrote the initial patch. Given the current issues, I plan to update da

Re: [Dctrl-tools-devel] Description-less packages file

2011-11-09 Thread Andrew Starr-Bochicchio
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: >  Hey, > > * Joerg Jaspert [2011-11-03 22:39:02 CET]: >> I just merged a patch from Ansgar to generate the Packages files without >> the English description embedded inside them. Instead they are now >> written into a new file, the "English T

Re: Description-less packages file

2011-11-09 Thread David Kalnischkies
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Re: [Dctrl-tools-devel] Description-less packages file

2011-11-09 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hey, * Joerg Jaspert [2011-11-03 22:39:02 CET]: > I just merged a patch from Ansgar to generate the Packages files without > the English description embedded inside them. Instead they are now > written into a new file, the "English Translation" file in > "main/i18n/Translation-en.bz2". They thu

Re: Description-less packages file

2011-11-08 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Hello, I welcome this change as it will also bring benefits in the local processing speed (at least, for some tools). As for Cupt, a couple of simple patches is needed for the support of the grabbing new 'Description-md5' from Packages-files, but even without them the program should work correctl

Description-less packages file

2011-11-03 Thread Joerg Jaspert
Hello world, I don't know if I really got everyone who should have a copy of this mail in my CC list, so please forward it to wherever you think I am missing. Thanks. I just merged a patch from Ansgar to generate the Packages files without the English description embedded inside them. Instead the