Bug#460504: dh_desktop/dh_icons madness

[Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>]

Josselin Mouette wrote:
> You are completely wrong on this topic. If you don’t use dh_icons, the
> icons shipped in your package won’t be available even to the application
> itself.

I don't claim to know the technical details of this, but I don't have 
update-icon-caches installed and I have never had a missing icon.  So again I 
suspect that this is an issue particular to some other environment.  Which 
was my point.

> > > I thought dpkg triggers had been sufficiently advertised, but it seems
> > > the mails haven’t reached the (deep ?) place you are living in.
> >
> > They indeed haven't, but since they appear to have reached the (shallow
> > ?) place you are living in, why not use them?
>
> If you had read them, you would also know this feature isn’t available
> yet.

So the transitive closure of this discussion is that you are just idly 
rambling.  Thank you for your time.