[ubuntu-mono] [Bug 546936] Re: Monodevelop missing from Ubuntu Software Center's "Mono/CLI" subsection

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

I agree that debtags would be a more flexible way of handling
categorization, though we can't do that until bug 57418 is fixed. And
this isn't the first time we've tripped over the problem of the Debian
Section values not having official definitions. But in the meantime,
Ubuntu Software Center has been treating the language-/runtime-related
Section values as if they meant "items useful when developing software
using this language/runtime". This works very well, with a few isolated
exceptions (e.g. bug 546968).

Some of these items in these subsections are applications, but most are
not; they're libraries, bindings, and so on. Neither Pinta nor Gnome Do
appear in "Developer Tools" > "Mono/CLI", because neither of them are in
a "cli-mono" Section; they're in "universe/gnome" and "graphics"
respectively. (And Gnome Do has a .desktop file that would trump the
Section value anyway.)

It's a reasonable point that MonoDevelop can be used to develop non-Mono
applications, so it should, and does, appear in the general "IDEs"
subsection -- but since it is the centerpiece of Mono development,
perhaps it should *also* be present inside "Mono/CLI" but not inside
"Ruby" and "Java" and so on. Does that seem reasonable?

If so, we have a mechanism worked out just for this: X-Ubuntu-Category-
Secondary. The way to get this going is to add "X-Ubuntu-Category-
Secondary: Mono" to MonoDevelop's .desktop file. Then the USC developers
can take care of the rest.

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Monodevelop missing from Ubuntu Software Center's "Mono/CLI" subsection
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/546936
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Status in “monodevelop” package in Ubuntu: New
Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
Binary package hint: monodevelop

1. In Ubuntu Software Center, navigate to "Get Software" > "Developer Tools" > "Mono/CLI".
2. Try to find Monodevelop.

What happens: You can't.
What should happen: You can.

This is because the monodevelop package has "Section: universe/devel". It should have "Section: universe/cli-mono".

Ubuntu Software Center could work around this temporarily by special-casing monodevelop in its categorization scheme.