mercurial package has poor title
Bug #674765 reported by
fantasai
This bug affects 2 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| One Hundred Papercuts |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned | ||
| mercurial (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: mercurial
I was looking for Mercurial in the Ubuntu Software Center, but had a lot of trouble finding it because the title of the package was listed as "scalable distributed version control system" instead of as "Mercurial" or "Mercurial Version Control System" or somesuch. (The description, which should have been "Scalable distributed version control system", was listed as "mercurial".)
Should be easy to fix. =)
| tags: | added: metadata |
Revision history for this message
| Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote | #1 |
| summary: |
- mercurial package has description and title swapped + mercurial package has poor title |
| Changed in mercurial (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
| milestone: | none → precise-8-softwarecenter-app-descriptions |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
| milestone: | precise-8-softwarecenter-app-descriptions → quantal-3-software-centre-app-metadata |
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For packages that don't have .desktop files, there's nowhere to get a summary from. That's why Ubuntu Software Center shows the package name (e.g. "mercurial") there instead. So, the problem isn't really that the description and title are swapped, it's that Mercurial has a poor title.
Because Debian packaging rules prevent the package name from being a human-friendly title (for example, it can't put a capital "M" in "Mercurial"), USC instead gets the title from the first line of the package Description. So, that first line should be changed to, as you say, "Mercurial version control system" or something like that.