Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Am Dienstag, 27. November 2007 schrieb Bernd Zeimetz: >> dh_desktop is what you need to use if you install a desktop file > > I have installed many desktop files in my lifetime and I've never felt the > need to run this program. I would like to see some documentation for why > this is needed.
dh_desktop (only) takes care of adding maintainer script fragments to call update-desktop-database, which is needed to update the desktop-MIME mapping. And that's just needed if your .desktop file has a MimeType entry. That's what man dh_desktop days. >> Remember, desktop files are a freedesktop.org standard and not a gnome-only >> standard. > > Sure, but "you need to run dh_desktop in every package" is not a > freedesktop.org standard. And we certainly won't make every package > containing desktop files depend on a GNOME base package. See #432851 for > similar discussions. update-desktop-database is only part of desktop-file-utils. Imho dh_desktop should add desktop-file-utils to misc:Depends, but that's not a problem of cdbs. -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
