Sune Vuorela wrote: >> Michael Biebl wrote: >>>> - update-icon-caches >>>> - update-desktop-database >>>> These are not very slow, nor used by a great many packages, >>>> but triggerizing them would allow getting rid of dh_icons and=20 >>>> dh_desktop eventually, which I would appreciate. >>> =20 >>> Sounds interesting. >>> What would have a maintainer to do, to support triggers? >>> As a lot of Gnome/KDE packages use cdbs, would fixing kde.mk/gnome.mk be >>> sufficient? > > I think kde.mk is mostly used to set correct autofoo arguments and such. > Not about the postinst snippets, where kde.mk just relies on the cdbs > debhelper.mk bruteforcing. > >> The maintainers of packages using them then stop running them manually >> in the maintainer scripts. This could be accomplished by a debhelper >> modification. > > A debhelper modification and a binNMU of related packages ? ;) > > Maybe having the trigger enabled dh_foo fill in misc:Depends with a > versioned dependency on a trigger aware dpkg ?
If I read the triggers documentation correctly, the situation is a bit different (please correct my, if I'm wrong. I just quickly glanced at triggers.txt) update-icon-caches/update-desktop-database would have to be made triggers-aware and install a triggers control file (e.g. interest /usr/share/icons or interest /usr/share/applications [1]) A package installing icons or a desktop file, would remove all calls to dh_desktop/dh_icons (that's why cdbs kde.mk/gnome.mk would have to be updated to remove the dh_desktop/dh_icons calls). The triggers would be activated by installing files into the above directories. An alternative would be, to keep dh_desktop/dh_icons around, to provide backwards compatibility (if triggers-aware dpkg is installed, they would be simple no-ops, otherwise they would behave as before). Cheers, Michael [1] Will changes to subdirectories (e.g /usr/share/applications/kde) also lead to a trigger, or would one have to register all subdirectories recursively? -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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