Bug#488832: lintian: Could check for missing update-desktop-database in maintainer scripts

[Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian@gmail.com>]

Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> first, sorry Russ, I hope you won't find I'm trying to eat your time a
> bit more with desktop files, but that check might be quite easy to
> implement, and useful because of #439717 (cdbs not calling dh_desktop
> but for the gnome.mk class).
> 
> Summary: dh_desktop is only needed so that the approriate
> update-desktop-database call is added when there are some desktop files
> embedding MimeTypes (see dh_desktop(1)).
> 
..

Wouldn't this be more useful if implemented as a trigger?
That way only people with desktop-file-utils (or just GNOME?) would be
executing triggers.

> 
> Mraw,
> KiBi.

Cheers,
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