Comment 1 for bug 674765
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| Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote Re: mercurial package has description and title swapped | #1 |
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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.