[help] when to call update-desktop-database in postinst

[Josselin Mouette]

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Le jeudi 28 avril 2005 =E0 00:17 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli a =E9crit :
> Now, I can happily live adding update-desktop-database to the postinst
> script (or add dh_desktop to my debian/rules of course) of vim and the
> appropriate dependency. What puzzles me however is that packages
> shipping the other choices I see in my "Open With" menu (abiword,
> emacs21, and gedit) do not invoke it in their postinst (while other
> packages, e.g. gnumeric, do).

For abiword and gedit, the .desktop file is located in the -common
package, where also lies the postinst script.

For emacs21, this is a packaging bug; it seems that dh_desktop isn't
invoked.
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