description dialog is empty

In AptUrl/Helpers.py pkgobj.candidate.description is empty. Howver, summary and raw_description contain information.

This may be an issue with python-apt.

Yes, this is recreatable with python apt. Test case:

import apt
cache = apt.Cache()
pkg = cache['2vcard']
pkg.candidate.description
''
pkg.candidate.summary
'perl script to convert an addressbook to VCARD file format'

Well, this doesn't even work in 12.04.

From a duplicate of this bug:

/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/AptUrl/Helpers.py:47: DeprecationWarning: Accessed deprecated property Package.description, please see the Version class for alternatives.
  if pkgobj.description.count("\n") > 0:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/apturl-gtk", line 48, in <module>
    sys.exit(apturl.main())
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/AptUrl/AptUrl.py", line 219, in main
    (sum, desc, homepage) = Helpers.parse_pkg(pkg)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/AptUrl/Helpers.py", line 47, in parse_pkg
    if pkgobj.description.count("\n") > 0:
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'count'

Switching to the Version class I still find no description.

vers = pkg.versions[0]
vers.description
''

Thats confusing, for me:
$ python3 -c 'import apt; pkg=apt.Cache()["2vcard"]; print(pkg.candidate.description)'
2vcard is a little perl script that you can use to convert the popular vcard file format. Currently 2vcard can only convert addressbooks and alias files from the following formats: abook,eudora,juno,ldif,mutt, mh and pine.

The VCARD format is used by gnomecard, for example, which is used by the balsa email client.

$ python3 -c 'import apt; pkg=apt.Cache()["2vcard"]; print(pkg.versions[0].description)'
2vcard is a little perl script that you can use to convert the popular vcard file format. Currently 2vcard can only convert addressbooks and alias files from the following formats: abook,eudora,juno,ldif,mutt, mh and pine.

The VCARD format is used by gnomecard, for example, which is used by the balsa email client.

$ python -c 'import apt; pkg=apt.Cache()["2vcard"]; print(pkg.versions[0].description)'
2vcard is a little perl script that you can use to convert the popular vcard file format. Currently 2vcard can only convert addressbooks and alias files from the following formats: abook,eudora,juno,ldif,mutt, mh and pine.

The VCARD format is used by gnomecard, for example, which is used by the balsa email client.

This was an issue with my local mirror not mirroring the Translation files.