Debian Bug report logs - #455740
[checks/menu-format] should use desktop-file-validate

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Sebastien Bacher <seb128@debian.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: should use desktop-file-validate

Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:18:26 +0100

Package: lintian
Version: 1.23.41
Severity: normal

The tools is written and maintained by the freedesktop guys and respects
the current .desktop specificaton. Is there any need to reimplement the
same tool rather than contributing to this one?

Message #10 received at 455740@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>

To: Sebastien Bacher <seb128@debian.org>

Cc: 455740@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#455740: should use desktop-file-validate

Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 10:04:38 -0800

severity 455740 wishlist
thanks

Sebastien Bacher <seb128@debian.org> writes:

> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.41
> Severity: normal
>
> The tools is written and maintained by the freedesktop guys and respects
> the current .desktop specificaton. Is there any need to reimplement the
> same tool rather than contributing to this one?

The person who submitted the current checks said that it wasn't up to
snuff, didn't check all the same things, and didn't appear to be that
actively maintained, so with those reasons plus not having an additional
package dependency, we went this route.  However, I'm happy to let someone
else figure this out.  If someone can do an analysis and it looks like
desktop-file-validate is much better, we can certainly switch.

If, however, it reintroduces all the false positives that we've now
adjusted for by not exactly following the standard (since people aren't
following the standard), that's a bad idea.

I'm not planning on doing the analysis myself; I've already spent far more
time on the desktop checks than I wanted to.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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