Bug#446097: lintian: desktop files check over strict for kde packages

[Sune Vuorela <reportbug@pusling.com>]

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.34
Severity: important


Hi!

KDE has a history of using desktop files for all sorts of things, not
only for applications and such.

for example kdegraphics, a fairly minor kde package, there is now around
10 errors and 60 warnings.

If at least those checks could not be run for desktop files in some
locations mostly used for kde things:

/usr/share/services
/usr/share/servicetypes
/usr/share/applnk

currently lintian generates so much output for no reasons that makes
lintian impossible to use to check the kde packages.

I guess it is the desktop checks implementet in version .33 that is the
culprit.

/Sune


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.20-1-vserver-k7 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils               2.18-1            The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  diffstat               1.45-1            produces graph of changes introduc
ii  dpkg-dev               1.14.6            package building tools for Debian
ii  file                   4.21-3            Determines file type using "magic"
ii  gettext                0.16.1-2          GNU Internationalization utilities
ii  intltool-debian        0.35.0+20060710.1 Help i18n of RFC822 compliant conf
ii  libparse-debianchangel 1.1.1-1           parse Debian changelogs and output
ii  man-db                 2.4.4-4           on-line manual pager
ii  perl [libdigest-md5-pe 5.8.8-7           Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

lintian recommends no packages.

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