Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Bionic)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1907850
Title:
Cache not generated for all translations
Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in apt source package in Xenial:
Confirmed
Status in apt source package in Bionic:
Confirmed
Status in apt source package in Focal:
Confirmed
Status in apt source package in Groovy:
Confirmed
Status in apt source package in Hirsute:
Confirmed
Bug description:
[Impact]
In bug 1161743 we discovered that if a system is configured with multiple
locales, only the locales of the user who generated the apt-cache will be
available for translated descriptions.
[Test case]
An automated test case has been included as a snippet in
test/integration/test-bug-490000-search-in-all-translations which runs during
autopkgtest. That's sufficient for validation.
Manual test:
# apt install locales-all # get the locale
# export LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
# locale
LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
LC_CTYPE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_TIME="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_COLLATE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MESSAGES="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_NAME="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="sv_SE.UTF-8"
LC_ALL=
# apt update
# apt-cache show tasksel | grep Desc
Description-sv: tool for selecting tasks for installation on Debian systems
Description-md5: cbbb747708986d11ea77c80b9b038fec
# apt-cache showpkg tasksel
Package: tasksel
Versions:
3.34ubuntu16
(/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_groovy_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
Description Language:
File:
/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_groovy_main_binary-amd64_Packages
MD5: cbbb747708986d11ea77c80b9b038fec
Description Language: sv
File:
/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_groovy_main_i18n_Translation-sv
MD5: cbbb747708986d11ea77c80b9b038fec
Description Language: en
File:
/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_groovy_main_i18n_Translation-en
MD5: cbbb747708986d11ea77c80b9b038fec
[...]
So far so good, but now assume the root user actually has C configured
as locale, and e.g. runs apt-cache show (or apt-daily.service does an
update):
root@g:~# rm /var/cache/apt/*.bin
root@g:~# LANG=C apt-cache show tasksel
[...]
Description-en: tool for selecting tasks for installation on Debian systems
This package provides 'tasksel', a simple interface for users who
want to configure their system to perform a specific task.
root@g:~# apt-cache showpkg tasksel
Package: tasksel
Versions:
3.34ubuntu16
(/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_groovy_main_binary-amd64_Packages)
Description Language:
File:
/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_groovy_main_binary-amd64_Packages
MD5: cbbb747708986d11ea77c80b9b038fec
Description Language: en
File:
/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_groovy_main_i18n_Translation-en
MD5: cbbb747708986d11ea77c80b9b038fec
This should show the sv locale as well given that it's still around
(also we are still running with LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8), but it only
generated the cache with the english language description in here.
[Where problems could occur]
People might end up seeing a wrong translation if other code paths are wrong,
but then they'd already see them if they explicitly configured multiple
languages and then switched the preferred one.
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