Arch Linux

In fact this is a really diffused bug. If you want to verify, this is the command I used for checking (run it in /var/abs):

for dir in $(find extra community -maxdepth 2 -type d) ; do [[ -e $dir/$(basename $dir).install ]] && egrep update-desktop-database $dir/*.install >/dev/null ; if [[ $? == 0 ]] ; then egrep -v ^depends=.+desktop-file-utils.+ $dir/PKGBUILD >/dev/null && basename $dir ; fi ; done

This returns 110 packages (73 in extra and 37 in community, core obviously doesn't contain desktop files) that should be fixed, and the list is not necessarily complete, since it only looks in $pkgname.install files. What should we do?

I've made public Jan's excellent guidelines for Gnome packages (which are useful for anything that uses gconf/desktop-file-utils/hicolor-icon-theme/etc.) here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gnome_package_guidelines

I've modified the title to make this report for all of affected packages.

I've linked to the gnome_package_guidelines in the arch_packaging_standards

These packages do have a .install scriptlet with update-desktop-database in it, but no dependency on desktop-file-utils:
Note: check for a mimetype line in the .desktop file. Without that line, there's no need to update-desktop-database!

< ardour
< gdm
< gimp
< eclipse
< obconf
< cinepaint
< gnome-phone-manager
< xfce4-appfinder
< openoffice-base
< hugin
< banshee
< glade
< anjuta
< mirage
< xpdf
< xfce-mcs-manager
< maxima
< mousepad
< xarchiver

What's the status of this issue?

We need an updated list of packages (where running update-desktop-database is needed according to .desktop file) which has this bug. Then, add these packages' maintainers to this bug report assignees.

new list:
<: runs update-desktop-database, no depends on desktop-file-utils
>: depends on desktop-file-utils, but doesn't run the command

2d1
< ardour
6d4
< banshee
10,11d7
< brasero
< cinepaint
13c9,10
< devhelp
---
> desktop-file-utils
> desktop-file-utils
18d14
< eclipse
41d36
< hugin
43d37
< maxima
45,46d38
< mirage
< miro
52,53d43
< obconf
< openoffice-base
55c45
< openoffice-base-devel
---
> openoffice-base-beta
58a49
> qalculate-gtk
61d51
< ristretto
67,68c57
< stardict
< stellarium
---
> system-config-printer
73,74c62
< vinagre
< wxmaxima
---
> xarchiver
77d64
< xemacs
79d65
< xfce4-appfinder

FTR, qalculate-gtk doesn't need to be fixed. It already runs the command. I'm not sure how it ended on the list.

It doesn't need to run it, as it contains no mimetypes in the .desktop file. Seems my abs checkout was not up2date when generating this list.