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  1. Bug #434601
  2. Comment #22

Comment 22 for bug 434601

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote : Re: Package descriptions etc display only in the language of whoever installed the OS

I sketched out how this could work in lp:~mvo/software-center/build-i18n-for-all

If there are multiple languages supported s-c buids a xapian index for each of them (that takes some time of course).
That works with the branch and if you run:
$ rm -rf ./data/xapian
$ PYTHONPATH=. utils/update-software-center --local
$ ./software-center

it will build multiple databases, e.g. for me:
$ ls data/xapian
ca de en es fr he hu it pt ru

What is missing is:
- cleanup when languages get removed
- ensuring that there is always a default fallback DB
- ensure to not rebuild if there are no changes in the app-install-data
- robustness

But the biggest problem is that the package descriptions are only availalbe in the system default language. That is a problem
with "apt" and not software-center. It download only that. I add a apt task to allow it having a option to download all supported
languages.