Package long descriptions missing
Synaptic, 'aptitude show' and 'apt-cache show' will show the long description only for packages that have been modified by devuan. All other packages have the short description.
After a fresh install, this behavior does not begin until the first update of the package cache. Before that, long descriptions are available for all packages.
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Adding to this from a comment posted on talk.do :
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Provide Contents files at the central repository.
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Review some popular build tools' configurations (like for example pbuilder) to use Devuan mirrors instead of Debian ones, to avoid inserting dependencies to systemd by mistake when building devuan packages.
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I can confirm this is still happening using either jessie or ascii repos.
Please see: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=2231
Or I can replicate the issue if needed.
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That's not due to the lack of Contents files (those are available from deb.devuan.org) rather to the lack of Translation files and the correspondinf indices. We planned to include them but the main problem is that the documentation about them is very scarce and incomplete on Debian's side...
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Is there an immediate workaround? Would changing locale to default have any effect?
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There is no immediate workaround, and changing locale won't help. You can still search the actual contents of packages using
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What about this: https://git.devuan.org/devuan-infrastructure/amprolla/issues/8
Workaround with recent
apt:deb [targets=Translations] http://httpredir.debian.org/debian sid main contrib non-free
Would that work?
Obviously there would still be a cross contamination of sources from Debian and Devuan.
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If you are happy with that...
We can't suggest that as an "official" workaround, because it does not work with all the versions of apt, those files are not served by Devuan repos, and they cotain material that is not present in Devuan repos.
