[Bug 665249] Re: The Software Center contains no information about minimum requirements

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Thanks for the suggestion, Nicholas. We'd like to implement this for
12.04.

Probably this will involve:
- implementing debtags in Launchpad (bug 57418)
- devising a debtags schema for hardware requirements (e.g. "requires-hardware::gl-level1")
- designing and implementing a Web interface in myapps.developer.ubuntu.com for specifying those requirements
- implementing an API for software-center-agent to transmit a commercial package's debtags to USC
- designing and implementing how USC (in minor cases) warns about, or (in major cases) doesn't offer, applications with requirements your machine doesn't meet
- designing and implementing what happens when the requirements change for the next version of an application you have installed.

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Title:
  The Software Center contains no information about minimum requirements

Status in One Hundred Paper Cuts:
  Invalid
Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: software-center

  The Software Center contains no information about the minimum hardware requirements for the listed applications.
  This is not usually a problem, since most of the software is free, and can easily be uninstalled if ones computer can't handle. However, with the introduction of commercial software, one can be in a situation where the software one hs purchased will not run  properly on one's hardware.

  For instance, I recently purchased the game Brukkon. An excellent game, I'm sure, but it is unplayable on my netbook, and I had no way to know that my netbook wasn't powerful enough.
  I also own a desktop machine, so I can enjoy the game there, but some people may only own a netbook, or an old laptop, or maybe there will soon be games in the Software Center with much higher hardware requirements.

  For this reason, I suggest that it should be a requirement for all
  commercial software that wants to get into the Software Center to list
  its minimum hardware requirements in the description.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: software-center 3.0.4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Oct 22 19:22:05 2010
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANG=en_DK.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: software-center

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