Bug#925551: lintian: desktop-command-not-in-package - plugin where host command is executed

[Ross Gammon <rossgammon@mail.dk>]

Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.81ubuntu1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Hexter is a package I am working on that runs as a plugin, and the desktop file
executes the host (dssi-host-jack) with hexter as an a further option in the
command (Exec=jack-dssi-host hexter.so).

https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/hexter

To avoid a warning in this case, could lintian check if a package with a
similar name to the command exists as a dependency to the package with the
desktop file?

Regards,

Ross



-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers bionic-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'bionic-updates'), (500, 'bionic-security'), (500,
'bionic'), (100, 'bionic-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.15.0-46-generic (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages lintian depends on:
ii  binutils                          2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04
ii  bzip2                             1.0.6-8.1
ii  diffstat                          1.61-1build1
ii  dpkg                              1.19.0.5ubuntu2.1
ii  file                              1:5.32-2ubuntu0.2
ii  gettext                           0.19.8.1-6ubuntu0.1
ii  intltool-debian                   0.35.0+20060710.4
ii  libapt-pkg-perl                   0.1.33build1
ii  libarchive-zip-perl               1.60-1ubuntu0.1
ii  libclass-accessor-perl            0.51-1
ii  libclone-perl                     0.39-1
ii  libdpkg-perl                      1.19.0.5ubuntu2.1
ii  libemail-valid-perl               1.202-1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl              0.07-1
ii  libipc-run-perl                   0.96-1
ii  liblist-moreutils-perl            0.416-1build3
ii  libparse-debianchangelog-perl     1.2.0-12
ii  libperl5.26 [libdigest-sha-perl]  5.26.1-6ubuntu0.3
ii  libtext-levenshtein-perl          0.13-1
ii  libtimedate-perl                  2.3000-2
ii  liburi-perl                       1.73-1
ii  libxml-simple-perl                2.24-1
ii  libyaml-libyaml-perl              0.69+repack-1
ii  man-db                            2.8.3-2ubuntu0.1
ii  patchutils                        0.3.4-2
ii  perl                              5.26.1-6ubuntu0.3
ii  t1utils                           1.41-2
ii  xz-utils                          5.2.2-1.3

Versions of packages lintian recommends:
ii  libperlio-gzip-perl  0.19-1build3

Versions of packages lintian suggests:
ii  binutils-multiarch     2.30-21ubuntu1~18.04
ii  dpkg-dev               1.19.0.5ubuntu2.1
ii  libhtml-parser-perl    3.72-3build1
ii  libtext-template-perl  1.47-1