diff --git a/share/functions/__fish_print_packages.fish b/share/functions/__fish_print_packages.fish
index 07e7dfcc1..b0b26bb13 100644
--- a/share/functions/__fish_print_packages.fish
+++ b/share/functions/__fish_print_packages.fish
@@ -23,11 +23,11 @@ function __fish_print_packages
             # (It is safe to use `sed -r` here as we are guaranteed to be on a GNU platform
             # if apt-cache was found. Using unicode reserved range in `fish/tr` and the
             # little-endian bytecode equivalent in `sed`. Supports localization.)
-            apt-cache --no-generate show '.*'(commandline -ct)'.*' 2>/dev/null | sed -r '/^(Package|Description-[a-z]{2}):/!d;s/Package: (.*)/\1\t/g;s/Description-.*: (.*)/\1\xee\x80\x80\x0a/g' | tr -d \n | tr -s \uE000 \n | uniq
+            apt-cache --no-generate show '.*'(commandline -ct)'.*' 2>/dev/null | sed -r '/^(Package|Description-?[a-z]{0,2}):/!d;s/Package: (.*)/\1\t/g;s/Description-?[^:]*: (.*)/\1\xee\x80\x80\x0a/g' | tr -d \n | tr -s \uE000 \n | uniq
             return
         else
             set -l packages (dpkg --get-selections | string replace -fr '(\S+)\s+install' "\$1" | string match -e (commandline -ct))
-            apt-cache --no-generate show $packages 2>/dev/null | sed -r '/^(Package|Description-[a-z]{2}):/!d;s/Package: (.*)/\1\t/g;s/Description-.*: (.*)/\1\xee\x80\x80\x0a/g' | tr -d \n | tr -s \uE000 \n | uniq
+            apt-cache --no-generate show $packages 2>/dev/null | sed -r '/^(Package|Description-?[a-z]{0,2}):/!d;s/Package: (.*)/\1\t/g;s/Description-?[^:]*: (.*)/\1\xee\x80\x80\x0a/g' | tr -d \n | tr -s \uE000 \n | uniq
 
             return
         end