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software-center package

Commercial apps in USC don't link to their Web sites

Bug #788696 reported by Craig73
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Developer registration portal
Fix Released
Low
Danny Tamez
software-center (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Natalia Bidart
Ubuntu ubuntu-12.10

Bug Description

The "For Purchase" software does not seem to contain any vendor information or links to their website.

Apparently this is because the developer portal does not include a field for entering the product's Web site, i.e. the "Homepage:" field for the package. USC automatically presents "Homepage:" as a link or button when it is present.

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Related branches

lp://staging/~nataliabidart/software-center/birth-of-a-website.0
Michael Vogt (community): Approve
Diff: 716 lines (+313/-314)
2 files modified
softwarecenter/db/update.py (+310/-310)
tests/test_database.py (+3/-4)
lp://staging/~nataliabidart/software-center/birth-of-a-website.1
Michael Vogt (community): Approve
Diff: 1748 lines (+616/-536)
8 files modified
.bzrignore (+4/-4)
softwarecenter/db/application.py (+18/-10)
softwarecenter/db/categories.py (+5/-2)
softwarecenter/db/update.py (+499/-472)
softwarecenter/enums.py (+40/-0)
tests/Makefile (+2/-2)
tests/test_database.py (+4/-4)
tests/test_reinstall_purchased.py (+44/-42)
Revision history for this message
Robert Roth (evfool) wrote :

Specifying the website at least would be really nice, but that is a packaging issue. Maybe the Application Review Board should be a bit more strict about the control files before accepting apps into the For Purchase apps section.
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Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
Revision history for this message
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

As far as I know, there's nothing technically preventing commercial applications from having links to their Web sites in USC, like packages do that are provided by Ubuntu. I'm investigating.

Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
importance: Wishlist → Medium
Revision history for this message
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Apparently the system for submitting a commercial application is missing a field to specify the vendor's Web site URL (i.e. "Homepage" field in the control file). Therefore I'm moving this to the developer portal project.

description: updated
summary: - No links for commercial apps in Ubuntu software centre
+ Commercial apps in USC don't link to their Web sites
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Invalid
Anthony Lenton (elachuni)
Changed in developer-portal:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Low
Danny Tamez (zematynnad)
Changed in developer-portal:
status: Confirmed → In Progress
assignee: nobody → Danny Tamez (zematynnad)
Revision history for this message
Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

The client will also need to add support for this, there is currently no "Homepage" field.
Ideally we should take the opportunity and ensure that everything in "AppDetails" will also look automatically on the
coresponding XapianValue. I.e.
def website(self):
    if self._pkg: return self._pkg.website
   elif self._doc: return self._doc.get_value(XapianValues.WEBSITE)

but the elif._doc.get_value(XapianValues.WEBSITE) should be auto-generated from the functioname.

Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: Invalid → Triaged
milestone: none → ubuntu-12.10
Revision history for this message
Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Plus the agent parser should also automatically put the names into the DB if there is a coresponding XapianValue withtout the need to manually define that mapping. A nice cleanup opportunity.

Dave Morley (davmor2)
Changed in developer-portal:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
Natalia Bidart (nataliabidart)
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
assignee: Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) → Natalia Bidart (nataliabidart)
status: Triaged → In Progress
Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in software-center (Ubuntu):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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