http://hildon-app-mgr.garage.maemo.o...ing-devel.html describes some nifty non-standard (in terms of non-Debian) fields the application manager understands when reading package information.

Among others:
This is missing from a corresponding article in the wiki:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/...d_Distributing

Is this only not documented (yet) for M5 or was this useful feature dropped? There is currently not one single application in Extras that explains to me in German what it does. Everything's English.

May I answer my own question:
No.

See these bugs:
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6757
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7452

Probably a "too many options" thing for Nokia. They simply assume everyone in the world speaks English and don't provide any means of describing a package in the user's own language any more.

How nice.

(I think developers should stop using English package descriptions right now and use descriptions in the developer's language. At least this would bring some sort of multi-language-support.)