Re: ubuntu software center

On tor, 2011-05-05 at 10:20 -0700, Jeff Davis wrote:
> I just installed ubuntu 11.04. I went to the software center and
> searched for "sql", and postgresql isn't there, but mysql is. Same if I
> search for "database" (though a few PG clients show up). If I search for
> "postgres", a few clients appear, but not the server.
>
> It looks like maybe postgresql got labeled as one of the "technical
> items" to hide, among hundreds of others in a search for SQL.
>
> If I search for "postgresql" I finally see:
>
> object-relational SQL database (supported version)
>
> There are a few things I don't like about that description, either. For
> one, I don't like calling postgres "object-relational," though that's
> probably a larger question because it appears other places in our
> documentation. And second, "supported version" is just a little
> confusing in the title -- the MySQL package is a virtual package as
> well, but it says so in the brief description rather than the title.

I'm sure if you send them a few bug reports about this, it can be
addressed. I don't think they somehow favor MySQL or something; it's
just that that particular package management frontend interprets the
metadata in that particular way.