Ad banner points to non-canonical maintained software when told to show only those that are canonical maintained
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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software-center (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Medium
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Ubuntu 11.10
Open Ubuntu Software Centre. Click "View" in menu bar, then "Canonical Maintained Software" this hides the paid software and other software titles not officially maintained by Ubuntu.
The ad still shows "Trauma" in it's rotation and allows you to click on it through to it's summary page and allows you to purchase.
When you go back to the main home screen by clicking "All Software" from the Trauma summary page, the non canonical software is still hidden. This differs to how it would work if you were to search for "Braid" while showing only canonical software. The search suggests it shows you the 1 non-canonical maintained software that matches the search. Advancing to Braid's summary page from here, and then clicking "All Software" now shows all software, not just that from Canonical.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: software-center 5.0.3.1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Jan 10 20:49:24 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
tags: | added: ca-escalated |
tags: | removed: ca-escalated |
Kyle, thanks for the report. A trivial fix would be to simply not show the banners for non-Main applications, falling back to the "Our star apps" banner if that leaves zero others.
However, which software is Canonical- maintained is currently under discussion. <https:/ /blueprints. launchpad. net/ubuntu/ +spec/foundatio ns-q-finish- archive- reorg> I don't know what the result will be, but one possibility is that Canonical- maintained vs. not stops being a useful distinction, so that those menu items need to be removed. We should find out in the next couple of months, and we'll leave this bug report in the meantime.