Re: Desktop standards, MIME info cache, and Lintian

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org> writes:

>  (I have no idea why it's not mentionned anymore.)  Yes, the program is
>  still used; it's in charge of generating
>        /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache (and
>  /usr/local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache); these files may then be
>  used by e.g. gio (in GLib) to map MIME types to .desktop files
>  (really applications).  This can be used for example to open web
>  objects with the correct application according to its MIME type, or via
>  shared-mime-info + gio -- which allow mapping of a file's content or
>  filename to a MIME type -- to open any file with an application
>  handling this MIME type.

Thanks for the confirmation!

>  I can see how it would be useful to recommend calling dh_desktop as
>  soon as you distribute .desktop files just like it would be more useful
>  if we could inject any rules in packages via cdbs or the new "dh".
>  However, this is really packaging style and using an extensible
>  packaging style shouldn't be imposed by a checker tool like lintian;
>  I'm not aware of any different dh_desktop usage which would justify
>  raising a warning right now.
>
>  Also, would we have to do more things on .desktop files, we would have
>  more options to implement them without requiring dh_desktop (triggers
>  come to mind).
>
>  So not raising a lintian warning when dh_desktop isn't called on
>  .desktop file would be more to my taste.

Okay, that matches my reasoning.  I'll remove that tag in the next version
of Lintian.  Thank you very much!

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>