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Package: micro
Version: 2.0.15-2
Severity: minor
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Hello Utkarsh, Nilesh, and the rest of the Debian micro team past and
present. Thank you for maintaining this nice package over the years!
I've a couple of related suggestions and a combined patch that I think
would help improve its desktop integration. Or at least, to bring it
closer to what I think upstream are probably intending with their supplied
desktop integration files. I'd love it if you could consider updating the
package with my changes.
1. Please can you remove 02-fix-desktop-file.patch, and instead deploy
upstream's icon into /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps? In the
package's current state, the user is not able to change the displayed
icon by installing an icon theme[1] because the Icon= path is
hardcoded to "/usr/share/micro/assets/micro-logo-mark.svg".
2. Upstream have been shipping a Metainfo file since 2023. Please can
you update the Debian package to deploy it? It will close a warning[2]
of about the same age in the package tracking system[3].
The patch is quite short, so I've inlined it below. Note that micro now
build-depends on dh-exec, and micro.install must be made executable as
well in Salsa. This way might be more elegant? I think that using dh-exec
to install the icon file under upstream's preferred Icon= name is
technically better too, and should avoid any regression on #1047981. I
haven't noticed any inability to build local sources after a binary build,
or vice versa with these changes, so that seems hopeful.
Looking at the Salsa sources, I assume that Nilesh chose the
/usr/share/micro location as simply a place to drop the logo file back
when it couldn't be renamed by plain old dh_install. That location seems
not to be touched by upstream, and it's not depended upon by any installed
documentation as far as I can tell.
Also of note: upstream appear to be in the process of changing their
GitHub URL. I assume that's on your radar, though.
Thanks in advance for considering these changes,
Andrew.
[1] Such icon themes do exist, and I contribute to one occasionally :)
https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme/blob/master/Papirus/64x64/apps/micro.svg
[2] https://appstream.debian.org/sid/main/issues/micro.html
[3] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/micro
PATCH NOTE: micro.install must be made executable.
-------------------- 8< --------------------
diff -rU2 debian.OLD/control debian/control
--- debian.OLD/control 2026-01-17 16:14:36.000000000 +0000
+++ debian/control 2026-05-07 22:58:17.185158099 +0100
@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@
Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
dh-golang,
+ dh-exec,
golang-any,
golang-github-blang-semver-dev,
diff -rU2 debian.OLD/micro.install debian/micro.install
--- debian.OLD/micro.install 2026-01-17 15:39:12.000000000 +0000
+++ debian/micro.install 2026-05-07 22:55:56.148014435 +0100
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
-assets/micro-logo-mark.svg usr/share/micro/
+#!/usr/bin/dh-exec --with=install
+assets/micro-logo-mark.svg => usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/micro.svg
assets/packaging/micro.desktop usr/share/applications/
+data/io.github.zyedidia.micro.metainfo.xml usr/share/appdata/
Only in debian.OLD/patches: 02-fix-desktop-file.patch
diff -rU2 debian.OLD/patches/series debian/patches/series
--- debian.OLD/patches/series 2026-01-17 15:46:20.000000000 +0000
+++ debian/patches/series 2026-05-07 21:56:57.999054974 +0100
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
01-disable-commit-hash-and-date.patch
-02-fix-desktop-file.patch
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (5, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.19.14+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages micro depends on:
ii libc6 2.42-15
Versions of packages micro recommends:
ii xclip 0.13-4
micro suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Source: micro
Source-Version: 2.0.15-3
Done: Nilesh Patra <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
micro, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Nilesh Patra <[email protected]> (supplier of updated micro package)
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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:48:19 +0200
Source: micro
Architecture: source
Version: 2.0.15-3
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Utkarsh Gupta <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Nilesh Patra <[email protected]>
Closes: 1135971
Changes:
micro (2.0.15-3) unstable; urgency=medium
.
* Team Upload.
[ Marcos Talau ]
* debian/salsa-ci.yml: Add to provide CI tests for Salsa
.
[ Nilesh Patra ]
* Install appstream XML and hicolor icon (Closes: #1135971)
+ Thanks to Andrew Chadwick for the patch
* Bump S-V to 4.7.4
* Update Import-path to match go.mod provided path
* Drop myself from Uploaders
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