[Build-common-hackers] Bug#439717: Bug#439717: closed by Peter Eisentraut <peter_e at gmx.net> (Re: Bug#439717: cdbs: run dh_desktop if there's a debian/package.desktop file)

Tue Nov 27 14:53:11 UTC 2007

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
<bernd at bzed.de>                         <http://bzed.de/>