Other Software now displays the Suites instead of the Comments

[nicolas]

Since updating from Ubuntu 24.04 (from 23.10), software-properties-gtk shows the wrong field in the UI for Other Software.

Where it should show the Comment field, it shows the Suites field. It only does it if there is a value in Comment though.

For instance, imagine I have Inkscape PPA as a software source, with the Suites “hirsute” and the Comment “Inkscape”. In the UI, it will show “hirsute” instead of “Inkscape” as a title like it used to do. If I empty the Comment field, it does remove the title and “hirsute” is not displayed.

One more thing from the upgrade: all the Comment fields’ content got lost in the process. So I have no some sources that I can’t remember why I had installed, even though I have software coming from them, which I had indicated in Comment.

This has been working well for the past 10-15 years, so it’s definitely a mistake that has been introduced with the new version. The field edit dialogue has changed a little bit, so I’m guessing that change introduced the bug.

[Carlo Rossi (crossi1962)]

I confirm this bug and it's very annoying.
I had to retrieve my comments from the "*.list.save" files and now my "Other Software" view is messed with the "Suites" in the first row and the "Comment" it isn't visible.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Carlo Rossi (crossi1962)]

I was able to try only the modification of the file "SoftwareProperties.py" and it worked!
Now in the tab "Other Software" I see the comment in bold font, followed by the suite,and into the next row I see the URI.

Into the attachment you can see the new view.
(Sorry about the "add-apt-repository", I can't test the patch)
Anyway, thanks so much

[Carlo Rossi (crossi1962)]

I don't know if it is the correct way to ask for something, but I will try anyway:
is it possible (and not complicated) to show the "other software" rows in increasing alphabetical order?