Re: Publican Issues for RNs
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:57 AM, John J. McDonough <wb8rcr(a)arrl.net> wrote:
As far as the .desktop file, I don't fully understand the issue
here. The
code produced by Publican appears to be almost identical to that in the
packaging guidelines on the wiki and very similar to what it is in the
current release notes. David Nally tells me of an entirely different way to
deal with the .desktop file but I don't know enough to understand why it is
better.
So the spec file you guys have creates a .desktop file, but doesn't do
so in the way the packaging guidelines require that it must be done.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#desktop-file-install_...
So, I had the same problem with my first desktop package and read the
section immediately preceeding the above section and tried to create
it by hand.
From that section: (and emphasis is in the packaging guidelines, I
didn't add it):
It is not simply enough to just include the .desktop file in the
package, one MUST run desktop-file-install OR desktop-file-validate in
%install (and have BuildRequires: desktop-file-utils), to help ensure
.desktop file safety and spec-compliance. desktop-file-install MUST be
used if the package does not install the file or there are changes
desired to the .desktop file (such as add/removing categories, etc).