__________ I'm using this express-made address because personal addresses aren't masked enough at this mail public archive. Public archive administrator should fix this against automated addresses collectors. El 31/07/17 a les 03:23, Charles Plessy ha escrit: > Le Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 11:55:20AM +0200, Narcis Garcia a écrit : >> >> Do you mean that with only having at the package: >> ./usr/share/applications/xxx.desktop >> ./usr/share/mime/packages/xxx.xml >> triggers are automatically run? > > Hello Narcis, > > yes they will: > > $ grep usr/share/applications /var/lib/dpkg/triggers/File > /usr/share/applications mime-support/noawait > /usr/share/applications desktop-file-utils > /usr/share/applications gnome-menus/noawait > > $ grep usr/share/mime/packages /var/lib/dpkg/triggers/File > /usr/share/mime/packages shared-mime-info > > See /usr/share/doc/dpkg-dev/triggers.txt.gz for (a lot of) details. > >> Why transmission-gtk/postinst calls update-menus and update-mime ? Is it >> some kind of compatibility measure? > > The short answer is: "because transmission-gtk/postinst is generated by > debhelper > fia dh_installmenu". > > $ cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/transmission-gtk.postinst > #!/bin/sh > set -e > # Automatically added by dh_installmenu > if [ "$1" = "configure" ] && [ -x "`which update-menus 2>/dev/null`" ]; > then > update-menus > fi > > I am not sure why this is still needed while there is already a dpkg trigger > doing the work. > > Anyway, as noted elsewhere, the Debian menu system is being phased out. > > Have a nice day, >
Thanks, this is really useful information. I suppose "Debian menu system" is not the same as what xdg-desktop-menu manages (?) because it currently works perfectly to manually install any launcher on any desktop on any distro.
