Package: desktop-file-utils Severity: wishlist As my email to maintainers remains unanswered since 2013-01-03 I hereby declare my intention to (co-)maintain "desktop-file-utils".
On 2013-01-31 Ondřej Surý <ond...@debian.org> (uploader of last NMU) replied
to me in private email:
"I don't want to maintain this package anymore (I just did the NMU), so
feel free to take it and find a willing sponsor."
I took liberty to update the package and to create new repository
where I imported previous work and committed my improvements:
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=collab-maint/desktop-file-utils.git
As I already reported in
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=690279#5
the latest version of desktop-file-utils 0.21 introduces updates to desktop
file specification that affects desktop-file-validate in a way when version
0.21 revert what was considering correct by 0.20. The update to 0.21 is
therefore important to validation of .desktop files.
Current desktop-file-utils version 0.20 (which is "testing" and "unstable")
misvalidates "Categories" field in .desktop files which may lead to incorrect
decisions.
Due to potentially serious consequences of misvalidation I prepared source
package
https://mentors.debian.net/package/desktop-file-utils
for upload to "unstable". I believe upstream changes in 0.21 may be
considered for unblock.
Regards,
Dmitry Smirnov
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