Bug#455740: should use desktop-file-validate

2007-12-11 Thread Sebastien Bacher
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?





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Bug#455740: should use desktop-file-validate

2007-12-11 Thread Russ Allbery
severity 455740 wishlist
thanks

Sebastien Bacher [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.

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