On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 10:30:46AM +0200, Narcis Garcia wrote: > I'm observing how is transmission-gtk packaged and it seems that it's > not enough with including files as > ./usr/share/applications/xxx.desktop > ./usr/share/mime/packages/xxx.xml > > but postinst script should run update-menus and update-mime (or > update-mime-database) if available. update-menus is only for the menu files, not for desktop files. update-mime and update-mime-database are run via triggers, not maintainer scripts. > It seems also that there are (or were) some need to write profiles as > /usr/share/menu/PackageName > /usr/lib/mime/packages/PackageName > (time ago the first was at /usr/lib/menu/) to be located by update-menus > program. Probably. So? > Packaging my program, how can I deal better with this Do you have any actual problems with any of this? > , in most compatible way as possible (with other distros and with old > Debian versions)? We don't do such compatibility in the official packages. Make separate source packages for different distros. > [Note that I write my own postinst script] Don't do that. -- WBR, wRAR
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