How is app information in Ubuntu Software Center maintained?

Ma Xiaojun damage3025 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 14 18:28:04 UTC 2013


On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 7:24 PM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt at canonical.com> wrote:
> As Sergey said, and as hinted at
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#bugs>, problems with search
> results are either the fault of the individual package, or the
> app-install-data-ubuntu package.

The link is useful!
However, I don't want to wait forever for bug fixings in
app-install-data-ubuntu, for example the synaptic entry duplicate bug.
Can I take action?

> Ideally the app-install-data-ubuntu package would be unnecessary, with
> Launchpad publishing the correct application metadata for each
> package. <https://dev.launchpad.net/ArchiveIndex>

Well, then what if there is something wrong? Ask who to fix it and how to help?




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