[Bug 636933] Re: Package description doesn't mention it actually is Zlib

[Bryan Fullerton]

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and make Ubuntu better.

You can use "apt-cache search ^zlib" to find packages where the name or
description starts with 'zlib'. On Raring this returns only 17 items,
and it's fairly easy to figure out from that which is needed.

** Changed in: zlib (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Package description doesn't mention it actually is Zlib

Status in “zlib” package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  I needed to install Zlib in order to compile another package.
  "apt-cache search Zlib" output did contain zlib1g package name, but there's no clue on how to chose among the 70 suggested packages.
  The solution has been to run "apt-cache show <package name> | grep -i zlib" on all 70 output package names in order to find it out. This is unacceptable.
  "apt-cache search zlib" output should have a line saying:

  "zlib1g - Zlib compression library - runtime" and not just
  "zlib1g - compression library - runtime"

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