For Purchase Apps: Console description should be authoritative

Bug #803023 reported by Brian Thomason
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software-center (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

Can we, just for For Purchase apps, *always* show the description that is entered in the dev portal rather than showing the long desc in the control file after the package is installed. Right now we package first and publish later; often times, the vendor doesn't provide me a description so I have to find one on their website or create one, or even if they do, they often change it at the last minute resulting in the description being (sometimes vastly) different pre-install versus post-install.

I would prefer, and from talking to a couple of vendors they would as well, that the Dev Portal description be authoritative.

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote :

Importance set based on request from ChewyTree on IRC

description: updated
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Triaged
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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Why isn't the submission system requiring vendors to enter a description in the first place? It seems to me that the package description in the control file should be generated from text the vendor enters. (And if the vendor's already packaged it themselves, maybe the submission system should extract the Description and present it for optional updating.)

If we used text from somewhere else instead, then in five years, the large majority of packages would have a "Description:" field that wasn't being used. There might be a good reason for phasing it out, but I don't think this is it.

(Setting back to Confirmed since the solution isn't clear.)

Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Confirmed
Kiwinote (kiwinote)
tags: added: db
tags: added: client-server
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