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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Package synopsis given high search weight even when it isn't shown

Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Ubuntu Software Center 5.0, Ubuntu 11.10 beta

  1. From the home screen, search for "multi".
  2. Navigate, in turn, to the software item screens for Multiget, BasKet, ROXTerm, and Empathy.
  3. Use "apt-get cache" or Synaptic to examine the descriptions of each of those packages.

  What you see:
  1. Multiget is ranked lower than BasKet, ROXTerm, and Empathy.
  2. Multiget uses "multi-" in its description, but the other three do not visibly use it at all.
  3. The other three use "multi-" in their synopsis (the first line of their Description: field), but USC does not show this.

  It is a good idea to give the package synopsis high weighting when
  searching technical items.

  It might even be a good idea to include the synopsis as searchable
  text even when USC won't show it.

  However, it probably isn't a good idea to do both at the same time.
  USC shouldn't be giving high weighting to the synopsis for packages
  where it does not show the synopsis.

  [Originally discovered by Anup Verma in ayatana@.]

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