Bug#463900: False positive for missing dh_desktop call in packages without MimeType fields
Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.42
> Severity: normal
>
> One of my packages produces this lintian warning:
>
> W: heroes source: desktop-file-but-no-dh_desktop-call
> N:
> N: It looks like your package includes a .desktop file and you use
> N: debhelper to build it, but you don't call dh_desktop in your rules
> N: file.
>
> But according to dh_desktop(1), this is only needed or useful for
> files that contain a Mime-Type entry. Should lintian really be telling
> me to run no-ops?
Yes, I believe so. As I understand it, the intention is future-proofing:
right *now*, the only thing update-desktop-database does is update MIME
databases, and hence dh_desktop does nothing if there is no MimeType
field, but this may not always be the case. With a dh_desktop call, any
future needs can be handled with a binNMU against the latest debhelper
should something additional be needed.
It's possibly mind-reading on my part, but I think that's what the
"currently be ignored" part is intended to get at.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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