Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: >> Maybe i missinterpreted your conclusion, but this what I get in one of my >> packages: >> desktop-mimetype-without-update-call /usr/share/applications/... >> >> Now that we have triggers, I really don't see the benefit of adding such a >> lintian warning. Imho we should get rid of dh_icon and dh_desktop completely >> and >> also any manual update-desktop-database calls, not recommend to add such a >> call >> (to potentially a *lot* of packages). >> >> Why should we update dozens if not hundreds of packages, if we can have the >> same >> effect much more elegantly and efficiently with file triggers. > > How would you know the trigger needs to be run then? If you remove the call > from > all the packages, you will then have to call the trigger everytime dpkg is > run, > no matter if you only install one package that doesn't need those triggers. > > So AFAIUI, your package needs to call those, and then dpkg will not call those > for every package, but do one call at the end if it supports triggers. >
See /usr/share/doc/dpkg-dev/triggers.txt.gz, w.r.t file triggers. The trigger will one be run if it matches a file (e.g. /usr/share/icons or /usr/share/applications). Cheers, Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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