Hello Julian, or anyone else affected, Accepted apt into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/2.0.5 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.
Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users. If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed- focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification- failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed. Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping! N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days. ** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu Focal) Status: Confirmed => Fix Committed ** Tags added: verification-needed-focal -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1907850 Title: Cache not generated for all translations Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in apt source package in Xenial: Confirmed Status in apt source package in Bionic: Confirmed Status in apt source package in Focal: Fix Committed Status in apt source package in Groovy: Fix Committed Status in apt source package in Hirsute: Fix Released 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1907850/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp