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[Kiwinote <kiwinote@xxxxxxxxx>]

As per the debian policy manual [0] every debian package must have a
description field. The error would seem to indicate that this is not the
case for this specific deb file, resulting in an invalid debian package.

[0] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-binary.html

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

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Title:
  software-center crashed with KeyError in summary(): 'Description'

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

Bug description:
  Software Center crashed when I try to install any .deb package. 'dpkg
  -i' works fine.

  ProblemType: Crash
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: software-center 5.1.5.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-8.15-generic 3.2.0
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-8-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.90-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Jan 17 17:29:31 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/share/software-center/software-center
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64+mac (20111012)
  InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/software-center /home/username/downloads/minetest-c55-texturepack-default_0.3.1_i386.deb
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/software-center', '/home/username/downloads/minetest-c55-texturepack-default_0.3.1_i386.deb']
  SourcePackage: software-center
  Title: software-center crashed with KeyError in summary(): 'Description'
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

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