On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 03:15:30PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Am Sonntag, den 10.01.2010, 14:30 +0100 schrieb Xavier Roche: > > Hi folks, > > > > How to deal with a desktop-command-not-in-package lintian warning when a > > .desktop file in a "common" package B references a binary in package A ? > > > > Typically the package A used to contain static/arch-independent data > > which was splitted to a B "common" package to comply with debian > > packaging rules (to limit the size of architecture-dependent packages). > > > > Solution 1: consider the warning a false positive and ignore it > > Solution 2: pull back the destop command in the arch-dependent package > > Solution 2 is the correct answer.
For me solution 1 is also justified when putting the .desktop file into the arch-dependent package. Since the arch-dependent package depends on the common package lintian shouldn't complain, otherwise a bug report against lintian might be in order. > First I thought it would be a strange warning, but then I understood it. > Imagine that you install only the data package B, which contains the > desktop file. Then you have a desktop icon, but you cannot launch the > application. True, but this is really an exceptional case. I suspect the normal case is that one installs both packages. -Ralf. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
