Back in February 2019 when the usegalaxy.* team were hacking together for a week we all converted our tool panels to use the same section names. Unfortunately, it turns out, the tool installation process doesn't exactly work that way.

It looks like tool_panel_section_label in an Ephemeris tool yaml becomes new_tool_panel_section_label in the API request. Through a series of levels ~~it turns out that instead of searching the toolbox by name/label, the label is converted to an ID with .lower().replace(' ', '_') and searches for that ID. If there's no match for that ID, a new section is created.

In #8 I expected that by passing the name of an existing section (ChIP-seq), it would be installed in to the existing section (which happens to have ID chip_seq). Instead, the install code searched for chip-seq and, not finding it, created a new section with the same name/label but with ID chip-seq.

This means that for usegalaxy.* common tools we need to:

1. use identical section IDs, or
2. fix Galaxy to find sections by name/label if an ID is not provided

IMO the best fix in the short term is to use identical section IDs, but that's maybe a little less flexible and requires looking in a shed_tool_conf.xml any time a new tool is added, rather than just looking at the tool panel in Galaxy.

ping @galaxyproject/universe-admins