Michael Biebl wrote:
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> It's also a matter for what case we optimize:
>
> For users running unstable, who constantly update, it might/will happen
> that the update-desktop-database trigger is activated although
> unnecessary.
>
> For stable users, who only do distro upgrades, it might be qui
Josselin Mouette wrote:
> As for update-mime-database, I think it concerns only a very small
> number of packages, but that’s certainly doable.
I've looked into update-mime-database and update-mime. Here's what I think needs
to be done in order to properly adopt triggers support in these packages:
Le mardi 10 février 2009 à 19:27 +0100, Michael Biebl a écrit :
> Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > For update-icon-caches, that was the plan when introducing it. However
> > it can only apply to the hicolor and gnome themes. Other themes will
> > still need to call dh_icons. This also means dh_icons wil
Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:03:27PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
>> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote:
>>> I don’t think it’s a good idea to use triggers for
>>> update-desktop-database. There are many .desktop files without a
>>> MimeType key, and for all of them callin
Michael Biebl wrote:
> 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).
James Vega wrote:
> The whole point of triggers is that they watch a set of
> files/directories and whe
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:03:27PM +0100, Loïc Minier wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > I don’t think it’s a good idea to use triggers for
> > update-desktop-database. There are many .desktop files without a
> > MimeType key, and for all of them calling update-desktop-datab
Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 10 février 2009 à 13:34 +0100, Michael Biebl a écrit :
>> Joss, what's your opintion on update-mime-database (dh_installmime) and
>> update-icon-caches (dh_icons)?
>> Should we triggerize them too?
>
> For update-icon-caches, that was the plan when introducing it
Le mardi 10 février 2009 à 13:34 +0100, Michael Biebl a écrit :
> Joss, what's your opintion on update-mime-database (dh_installmime) and
> update-icon-caches (dh_icons)?
> Should we triggerize them too?
As for update-mime-database, I think it concerns only a very small
number of packages, but tha
Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 10 février 2009 à 12:03 +0100, Loïc Minier a écrit :
>> sudo update-desktop-database -q 0,06s user 0,02s system 96% cpu 0,075 total
>
> I didn’t recall it was that cheap. The trigger is then definitely the
> way to go.
>
Joss, what's your opintion on update-m
Le mardi 10 février 2009 à 12:03 +0100, Loïc Minier a écrit :
> sudo update-desktop-database -q 0,06s user 0,02s system 96% cpu 0,075 total
I didn’t recall it was that cheap. The trigger is then definitely the
way to go.
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On Tue, Feb 10, 2009, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> I don’t think it’s a good idea to use triggers for
> update-desktop-database. There are many .desktop files without a
> MimeType key, and for all of them calling update-desktop-database is a
> waste of time.
>
> On my system, only 30% of .desktop fi
Le dimanche 08 février 2009 à 18:34 -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit :
> I removed the requirement to call dh_desktop every time you have a
> *.desktop file. I didn't remove the tag entirely since at the time we had
> no triggers and you still did need to call update-desktop-database if the
> *.desktop
Michael Biebl writes:
> Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Okay, that matches my reasoning. I'll remove that tag in the next
>> version of Lintian. Thank you very much!
> Maybe i missinterpreted your conclusion, but this what I get in one of
> my packages:
> desktop-mimetype-without-update-call /usr/sha
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
>> li
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 09:21:10PM +0100, 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 rea
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
Russ Allbery wrote:
> Loïc Minier writes:
>
>> I can see how it would be useful to recommend calling dh_desktop as
>> soon as you distribute .desktop files just like it would be more useful
>> if we could inject any rules in packages via cdbs or the new "dh".
>> However, this is really packag
Loïc Minier writes:
> (I have no idea why it's not mentionned anymore.) Yes, the program is
> still used; it's in charge of generating
>/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache (and
> /usr/local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache); these files may then be
> used by e.g. gio (in GLib) to
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 1. The update-desktop-database program used to be documented in the
>desktop entry spec in version 0.9.5 and was removed in 0.9.6 (the
>current version is 1.0). Should I draw some conclusion from that? Is
>this program and cache likely to go
Hi Russ.
Russ Allbery (28/12/2008):
> I started looking today in more depth at the MIME type registration
> process for applications providing *.desktop files, dh_desktop, and
> what Lintian is currently doing (as part of addressing #488832).
With (or without, not sure) my submitter hat (Corsac
Hello all,
I started looking today in more depth at the MIME type registration
process for applications providing *.desktop files, dh_desktop, and what
Lintian is currently doing (as part of addressing #488832).
Current situation: Lintian warns of packages that contain desktop files in
the debian
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