Re: How does apt select and priotize translations?

On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 02:12:26PM +0000, Camaleón wrote:
On Sun, 28 Aug 2011 13:54:53 +0200, Dirk Weinhardt wrote:

I am about to install a particular package from wheezy on a squeeze
system. Packages from wheezy should be pinned to a priority of 50. While
configuring and testing apt I found that apt searches for German
translations although the system's locale is en_US.utf8 and pinning
priorities seem not to be applied to translations.

I have added wheezy main to sources.list: deb
http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy main

And I have assigned a pin priority of 50 to testing in apt's
preferences: Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 50

The system's local initially was de_DE and I have changed that to
en_US.utf8 by running "dpkg-reconfigure locales". "locale" shows
"LANG=en_US.utf8" and "locale -a" does not list any de locale.

Why is apt still querying German translations and how can that be
avoided?

(...)

Mmm, interesting question.

I have "es" (Spanish) and "en" (English) locales in my wheezy system and
get sporadic updates for both -sometimes Spanish, sometimes English and
sometimes for both- package descriptions but true is that I never paid
attention on this because I guess it only affects to "descriptions" not
the packages nor application themselves :-?

Anyway, I would also like to know how this is managed, I mean, if
language package descriptions updates depend on the number of locale(s)
defined in the system or if it takes their settings from another source.

According to 'man apt.conf', Acquire::Languages can be set to declare
which translations one wants downloading. The pseudo-language
"environment" (which is part of the default setting) specifies that apt
should check $LC_MESSAGES. However, if this doesn't include a "de"
language, then it might actually be that Acquire::Languages was set at
install time.

Check /etc/apt/apt-conf.d/* for Acquire::Languages.


Greetings,

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