This seems to be a bug inside of python-apt. The attached test script prints the untranslated status messages to the command line. I can confirm that the strings are correctly translated in Synaptic which directly accesses the c++ API.
This seems to be a bug inside of python-apt. The attached test script prints the untranslated status messages to the command line. I can confirm that the strings are correctly translated in Synaptic which directly accesses the c++ API.