Am Sonntag, den 10.01.2010, 14:30 +0100 schrieb Xavier Roche: > Hi folks, > > How to deal with a desktop-command-not-in-package lintian warning when a > .desktop file in a "common" package B references a binary in package A ? > > Typically the package A used to contain static/arch-independent data > which was splitted to a B "common" package to comply with debian > packaging rules (to limit the size of architecture-dependent packages). > > Solution 1: consider the warning a false positive and ignore it > Solution 2: pull back the destop command in the arch-dependent package Solution 2 is the correct answer. > (I can not reverse the dependencies, because A _do_ depends on data in B.) First I thought it would be a strange warning, but then I understood it. Imagine that you install only the data package B, which contains the desktop file. Then you have a desktop icon, but you cannot launch the application. -- Benjamin Drung Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Maintainer (www.debian.org)
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