On Sun, 2024-11-03 at 22:26 +0100, Serafeim (Serafi) Zanikolas wrote: > > adequate should check that the Exec/Icon references in .desktop files > > resolve to executable, script or icon files that exist on the system.
lintian only has access to a single binary package, or only binary packages from a single source package, so it fundamentally cannot detect the situation that a desktop references a file that is not present in any of the packages in Debian. Same as for shared libs etc. > lintian already implements 20 .desktop file related tags, among which: > > - desktop-command-not-in-package > - desktop-entry-lacks-icon-entry (which also triggers when an icon file cannot > be found) These tests are useful, but not adequate for archive-wide tests. > do you see value in adequate duplicating these checks? I do not think that the proposed check duplicates the lintian check. > see also relevant discussion, about where the boundary between lintian and > adequate should be drawn, at d563niwiqdz2.3tdk6btt7u...@debian.org Checks that need to happen after install such as cross-package checks should go to adequate and checks that can be done statically for a single binary package or all binary packages from the same source should go to lintian. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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