Bug#277441: call desktop-file-validate to check .dekstop files
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 11:08:19PM +0100, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:08:53AM +0200, Loïc Minier wrote:
> 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).
lintian isn't installable directly anymore anyway as there is no
intltool-debian in woody (noticed the problem while testing 1.23.7
on lintian.d.o but didn't worked around it yet).
> 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 :).
>
> Opinions?
The indirect dependency on libglib isn't really ideal...
Although the to have the check would be good. Not 100% sure yet.
Perhaps we should go back to only recommending some external tools...
Gruesse,
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