Re: r191 - trunk/vim/debian

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 10:53:02AM -0400, jamessan@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > +    + Added dependency on desktop-file-utils (needed by dh_desktop)
> I noticed that neither Abiword(-common) nor gedit(-common) have a
> dependency on desktop-file-utils.  Are you sure we need the dependency
> or is that a problem with their packaging?

I asked myself the same question this afternoon. My conclusioni was that
we don't need the dependency indeed.

Rationale:
  dh_desktop adds a postinst entry which does something only if
  update-desktop-database (shipped by desktop-file-utils) is available.
  The package desktop-file-utils, when installed, invoke
  update-desktop-database in _its_ postinst. As long as all packages
  using the .desktop entries (e.g. nautilus) depends on
  desktop-file-utils the dependency is thus useless.

I will revert my added dependency in a minute.

Cheers.

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