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Re: some suggestions towards a Debian .desktop policy [Was: Warm up discussion about desktop files]



On Wed, April 20, 2011 09:57, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org>
> wrote:
>
>> .. as validated by the desktop-file-validate utility, as used by
>> lintian.
>
> desktop-file-validate is not used by lintian, perhaps there should be
> a test similar to the man-db test though.

fwiw, it has been requested that lintian use d-f-v (#455740) but at least
at the time it apparently didn't fit the task properly and no one had
enough free time to properly investigate its suitability.

Regards,

Adam


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