Bug#277441: call desktop-file-validate to check .dekstop files

[Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>]

        Hi,

Jeroen van Wolffelaar <jeroen@wolffelaar.nl> - Fri, Jan 14, 2005:

> I like the idea, it should be able to get to work quite simply, but it
> would introduce a new dependency, and render lintian not directly
> installable on woody (but you'd need to backport desktop-file-validate).

 Yeah, I agree with this problem, and it's more a generic problem in
 lintian that you're supposed to re-implement algorithms that already
 exist elsewhere to get the input / output of those algorithms
 checked...

> For lintian.d.o a bit more work, but I don't think it's really
> prohibitive, plus sarge is going to be release soon :).

 I suggested desktop-file-validate as a "no code duplication, smallest
 effort" solution, may be the true solution is to rewrite the code in a
 different way?

   Bye,

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Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>