Package: lintian
Version: 2.5.10.2
control: retitle -1 [new check] Add check for missing keywords field in
.desktop file
control: tag -1 + patch
Patch here
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Dr-Ing Bastien ROUCARIÈS uUniversité de Cergy/SATIE ENS Cachan
From d4363231a0d1ca72fe4625e578e2e65ed35bc238 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bastien=20ROUCARI=C3=88S?= <roucaries.bast...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 07:35:22 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add desktop file with no keywords warning
---
checks/menu-format | 8 ++++++++
checks/menu-format.desc | 11 +++++++++++
2 files changed, 19 insertions(+)
diff --git a/checks/menu-format b/checks/menu-format
index 34de8fa..1ad1743 100644
--- a/checks/menu-format
+++ b/checks/menu-format
@@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ my %known_desktop_keys = map { $_ => 1 }
Comment
Icon
Hidden
+ Keywords
OnlyShowIn
NotShowIn
TryExec
@@ -648,6 +649,13 @@ sub VerifyDesktopFile {
}
}
+ # test if missing Keywords(only if NoDisplay is not set)
+ if (!defined $vals{NoDisplay}) {
+ if(!defined $vals{Keywords}) {
+ tag 'desktop-entry-lacks-Keywords-entry', $file;
+ }
+ }
+
# Only test whether the binary is in the package if the desktop file is
# directly under /usr/share/applications. Too many applications use
# desktop files for other purposes with custom paths.
diff --git a/checks/menu-format.desc b/checks/menu-format.desc
index 1fc567d..e5e5ad0 100644
--- a/checks/menu-format.desc
+++ b/checks/menu-format.desc
@@ -306,6 +306,17 @@ Info: The categories for this desktop entry do not contain any Main
useful for checking the syntax of desktop entries.
Ref: http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/1.0/apa.html
+Tag: desktop-entry-lacks-Keywords-entry
+Severity: minor
+Certainty: certain
+Info: The categories for this desktop entry do not contain any
+ Keywords. Keywords should not be redundant with the values of Name
+ or GenericName.
+ .
+ The desktop-file-validate tool in the desktop-file-utils package is
+ useful for checking the syntax of desktop entries.
+Ref: http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/1.0/apc.html
+
Tag: desktop-entry-uses-reserved-category
Severity: normal
Certainty: certain
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