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Update Manager showing wrong description for vim

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Greetings!

A couple of times now I've noticed that Update Manager is showing the wrong description for vim. The update this morning was still incorrect:

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Update Manager describes vim as "Tool to make (or reverse) a hex dump". hahaha, I guess hardcore vim users probably could do that, but it's actually described as a text editor elsewhere.

Thanks! :)
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Re: Update Manager showing wrong description for vim

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ConstantRandom wrote: Update Manager describes vim as "Tool to make (or reverse) a hex dump".
The default vim application for LM is comprised of the vim-common, vim-tiny, and xxd packages. Update Manager is getting the description for xxd from the repository for this ...

https://packages.ubuntu.com/focal-updates/xxd

Not saying that's correct, but that's what's happening. Arguably, the vim-tiny description could be preferable.
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