Currently we import all of the package data from the package cache for each series, using python apt (which rocks!).
It seems that some packages in Oneiric now have language-specific fields such as Description-en (and don't have a Description field) [1]
For these packages we currently end up with a blank description. This seems to be because our server runs on lucid, and the lucid version of the python apt doesn't handle the language-specific fields whereas the oneiric python apt does [2].
I'm not sure if there is a way with the lucid version of python apt that we can work around this, or whether we need to backport/install a custom version on the server. I assume there will be a way to work around it (and mvo will know it :) ).
Currently we import all of the package data from the package cache for each series, using python apt (which rocks!).
It seems that some packages in Oneiric now have language-specific fields such as Description-en (and don't have a Description field) [1]
For these packages we currently end up with a blank description. This seems to be because our server runs on lucid, and the lucid version of the python apt doesn't handle the language-specific fields whereas the oneiric python apt does [2].
I'm not sure if there is a way with the lucid version of python apt that we can work around this, or whether we need to backport/install a custom version on the server. I assume there will be a way to work around it (and mvo will know it :) ).
[1] http:// paste.ubuntu. com/714889/ paste.ubuntu. com/714895/
[2] http://