Bug#367466: lintian: enhancement, check for missing menu files

2006-05-21 Thread Matt Taggart
Russ Allbery writes... I'm worried about the number of false positives here, from packages like gksu that might link with X libraries but shouldn't have menu entries for themselves. There may be quite a few helper programs like that that link with X but aren't applications in the menu

Bug#367466: lintian: enhancement, check for missing menu files

2006-05-21 Thread Russ Allbery
Matt Taggart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK, I'd like to try to fix the patch to deal with any false positives. Does someone run lintian on the whole archive that could try with this patch and give me a list of packages that report the problem? I'm not sure that anyone is currently doing this.

Bug#367466: lintian: enhancement, check for missing menu files

2006-05-16 Thread Matt Taggart
Package: lintian Version: 1.23.21 Severity: wishlist I have an idea for a lintian enhancement. There are packages that provide GUI programs (gtk,qt,etc.) that do not provide a menu file for those programs, ideally they would all provide menu files. Here is a patch that adds a test to the

Bug#367466: lintian: enhancement, check for missing menu files

2006-05-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Matt Taggart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Package: lintian Version: 1.23.21 Severity: wishlist I have an idea for a lintian enhancement. There are packages that provide GUI programs (gtk,qt,etc.) that do not provide a menu file for those programs, ideally they would all provide menu files.