Sort by name sorts by description

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, I am closing it because the bug has been fixed in the latest version of Ubuntu - Quantal Quetzal.

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Thanks. What version of software-center contains the fix? I'm having trouble finding it in the changelog.

Sorry, I have been looking at the end of the list, where every packagename starts with lib, and the items were sorted by the last part of the packagename, but indeed, I could find package 'ri1.9.1' before 'libhd....'.
The code [1] also states this: first try sorting by display name, which (for apps which don't have a desktop file) is the first line of the description from the .control file, and fall back to sorting by packagename.

[1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~software-store-developers/software-center/trunk/annotate/head:/softwarecenter/db/enquire.py#L212

This bug still exists in 13.04, selecting any of the categories and then ordering by name seems to result in a completely random sequencing of the available applications.

I have included and example screenshot showing what happens if selecting 'Games' -> 'All 590' and the choosing 'By Name' as you can see the first three games are 'xrubik', 'Keen' and 'Warmux' in that order. In addition the ordering is now not even based on the description field as the first words of these descriptions are 'Rubik', 'Game' and 'A'. The same result happens regardless of which section of the Software Centre is being viewed.