Canonical Partners software listing is confusingly incomplete

[Brian Murray]

Binary package hint: software-center

I was looking to install the sun-java6-plugin from the partner repositories and opened software center. In the "Canonical Partners" section I saw some applications but not the one for which I was looking. I checked with rmadison and it shows up in natty-partner. Come to find out I didn't have the partners repository enabled in my /etc/apt/sources.list. After enabling it seeing that software center was updating I still didn't see it in the list until after I restarted software center.

Its really rather confusing that there is an incomplete list of software in the Partners section as it leads one to believe they the partners repo enabled when they may not. In my mind the list should either be complete and tell you to enable partners when you go to install something or there should be nothing there until you've enabled it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: software-center 4.0
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CheckboxSubmission: fee5e196cb921cbd36888f428b38b488
CheckboxSystem: 2a6f54df59af338184485e85cbcf0d32
Date: Mon Apr 25 16:48:58 2011
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-21 (4 days ago)

[Patrick Wright (patrickmwright)]

I was finally able to recreate this issue after asking Brian some questions. Be sure to "show technical packages" or else the sun-java6 packages get filtered out.