Re: Lintian check for missing desktop files?

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 09:07:52AM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org> writes:
> 
> > Not sure if somebody has proposed it or not, but another heuristic would
> > be whether there is a debian menu file but not a desktop file.
> 
> Lintian intentionally doesn't do this because the Debian maintainers of
> the desktop systems in Debian didn't want lots of desktop entries for
> applications without a GUI, which often currently have menu entries.
 
Surely they can filter out entries with Terminal: true?

Ben.

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