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[Colin Watson <cjwatson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I've copied translation files to -updates for hardy, lucid, maverick,
and precise, which were the releases where they had uncopied files
available in -proposed.  These will be available after the next
publisher run.

Bug 827941 is now fixed, so it will not be necessary for us to do this
by hand again, and thus I'm unsubscribing ubuntu-archive.  The path to
actually closing this bug probably involves some combination of:

 * upload ddtp-translations (i.e. the new copyable-to-updates package) to -proposed in all supported releases, and have it copied to -updates
 * as previously suggested, change apt to fall back to other pockets to acquire description translations

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Title:
  No translated package descriptions for -updates repository

Status in Ubuntu Translations:
  Triaged
Status in “apt” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: apt

  Package descriptions for packages in the -updates repository always
  appear in English to the user in software-center or synaptic. It would
  be more accessible to show translated descriptions which are available
  in the users own language in this case.

  Example:
  $ LANG=C apt-cache policy gcalctool
  gcalctool:
    Installed: 5.32.0-0ubuntu4
    Candidate: 5.32.0-0ubuntu4
    Version table:
   *** 5.32.0-0ubuntu4 0
          500 http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main i386 Packages
          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
       5.32.0-0ubuntu1 0
          500 http://be.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main i386 Packages

  $ apt-cache show gcalctool
  Above command returns English package descriptions for both versions while my locale is set to Dutch (nl) and the file /var/lib/apt/lists/be.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_main_i18n_Translation-nl is available.

  I would have expected a Dutch package description for the ubuntu1
  package and an English package description for the ubuntu4 package in
  -updates.

  The archive should have a i18n directory for the maverick-updates
  repository or apt should be adapted to use the translations from the
  release repository (maverick) so translated package descriptions are
  displayed for updates too in software-center, synaptic, ...

  A symlink in the archive from maverick/i18n to the maverick-updates/i18n could be sufficient since the package descriptions remain the same and the Translation files provide the md5 checksum of the english descriptions to match with as described here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/10/msg00004.html
  I tested by copying /var/lib/apt/lists/be.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick_main_i18n_Translation-nl to /var/lib/apt/lists/be.archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_maverick-updates_main_i18n_Translation-nl and then translated package descriptions are displayed.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: apt 0.8.3ubuntu7
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sun Nov  7 22:05:27 2010
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100925)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=nl_BE.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: apt

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