Re: .desktop file handling

[Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco@yahoo.it>]

Hi Ghislain,

<quoting me>

>> your way is the best  one if you also add a patch to automatically install the file
>> inside the upstream build system.


<quoting pabs>
>It would be better to send upstream a patch to include the .desktop
>file in their source tree and install it using their build system. If
>they refuse to accept that then I would put the desktop file in
>debian/ and add it to debian/install.

<quoting you>
>In my personal experience, upstream usually prefers to be asked about
>where to put the .desktop file. So writing a patch that blindly places
>it in the root of the source tree may be rejected as is.


Pabs better explained what I was trying to say :)

thanks

G.