On Wed, 1 Sept 2021 at 03:19, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunna...@ubuntu.com>
wrote:

> On 2021-08-27 16:19, Robert Spanjaard wrote:
> > Greetings Ubuntu Developers!
> >
> > I was just browsing some sections in Synaptic, looking for lightweight
> > webbrowsers and image gallery creation. During my browse I found some
> > strange package placements:
> >
> > w3m, a text based webbrowser, is placed in the section Word Processing
> > bluefish, a text editor, is placed in World Wide Web (multiverse)
> > florence, a virtual keyboard for X, is placed in World Wide Web
> > (multiverse)
> >
> > All on Ubuntu 20.04(.3).
>
> Weird. I installed w3m (on 21.04) to take a look.
>
> $ cat /var/lib/dpkg/status | grep 'Package: w3m' -A 3
> Package: w3m
> Status: install ok installed
> Priority: optional
> Section: web
> $ apt-cache show w3m | grep Section
> Section: text
>
> It looks some kind of 'disagreement' between dpkg and apt while Synaptic
> is an interface to browse apt info.
>
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> Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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