tags 578621 -moreinfo +confirmed severity 578621 minor thanks A Debian package is not supposed to provide a .desktop file; it is supposed to provide a menu file:
$ cat /usr/share/menu/gnat-gps ?package(gnat-gps):needs="X11" section="Applications/Programming"\ title="GNAT Programming Studio" command="/usr/bin/gnat-gps" The utility update-menus then generates menu entries from this menu file for whichever window manager or desktop environments installed on the system. The package is supposed to call update-menus from its postinstall script; gnat-gps honours that requirement by calling dh_installmenu as part of the package build process. dh_installmenu is supposed to create the postinstall script. Looking at this more closely, it looks like the package lacks a postinstall script, so maybe the call to dh_installmenu failed (silently, per the buildd logs). This is a bug, so raising the severity to minor. I'll investigate this some more. In the mean time, you should be able to create the menu entry in whatever window manager by running update-menus as root in your virtual machine. Thanks for reporting. -- Ludovic Brenta. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
