* ABI/API change: add "VerIterator::TranslatedDescription()" method to make the life of the api user easier

3 files changed, 21 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/apt-pkg/cacheiterators.h b/apt-pkg/cacheiterators.h
index f0aafb52d..64fa4636e 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/cacheiterators.h
+++ b/apt-pkg/cacheiterators.h
@@ -129,6 +129,7 @@ class pkgCache::VerIterator
    inline const char *Arch() const {return Ver->Arch == 0?0:Owner->StrP + Ver->Arch;};
    inline PkgIterator ParentPkg() const {return PkgIterator(*Owner,Owner->PkgP + Ver->ParentPkg);};
    inline DescIterator DescriptionList() const;
+   DescIterator TranslatedDescription() const;
    inline DepIterator DependsList() const;
    inline PrvIterator ProvidesList() const;
    inline VerFileIterator FileList() const;
diff --git a/apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc b/apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc
index f76afb935..4452079a2 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/pkgcache.cc
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 #endif 
 
 #include <apt-pkg/pkgcache.h>
+#include <apt-pkg/indexfile.h>
 #include <apt-pkg/version.h>
 #include <apt-pkg/error.h>
 #include <apt-pkg/strutl.h>
@@ -43,6 +44,7 @@
 
 using std::string;
 
+
 // Cache::Header::Header - Constructor					/*{{{*/
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 /* Simply initialize the header */
@@ -608,3 +610,20 @@ string pkgCache::PkgFileIterator::RelStr()
    return Res;
 }
 									/*}}}*/
+// VerIterator::TranslatedDescription - Return the a DescIter for locale/*{{{*/
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+/* return a DescIter for the current locale or the default if none is 
+ * found
+ */
+pkgCache::DescIterator pkgCache::VerIterator::TranslatedDescription() const
+{
+   pkgCache::DescIterator DescDefault = DescriptionList();
+   pkgCache::DescIterator Desc = DescDefault;
+   for (; Desc.end() == false; Desc++)
+      if (pkgIndexFile::LanguageCode() == Desc.LanguageCode())
+	 break;
+   if (Desc.end() == true) Desc = DescDefault;
+   return Desc;
+};
+
+									/*}}}*/
diff --git a/cmdline/apt-cache.cc b/cmdline/apt-cache.cc
index 810dbe7b0..cb1aeb514 100644
--- a/cmdline/apt-cache.cc
+++ b/cmdline/apt-cache.cc
@@ -1237,13 +1237,7 @@ bool DisplayRecord(pkgCache::VerIterator V)
 
    // Show the right description
    pkgRecords Recs(*GCache);
-   pkgCache::DescIterator DescDefault = V.DescriptionList();
-   pkgCache::DescIterator Desc = DescDefault;
-   for (; Desc.end() == false; Desc++)
-      if (pkgIndexFile::LanguageCode() == Desc.LanguageCode())
-	 break;
-   if (Desc.end() == true) Desc = DescDefault;
-
+   pkgCache::DescIterator Desc = V.TranslatedDescription();
    pkgRecords::Parser &P = Recs.Lookup(Desc.FileList());
    cout << "Description" << ( (strcmp(Desc.LanguageCode(),"") != 0) ? "-" : "" ) << Desc.LanguageCode() << ": " << P.LongDesc();