Package: zim
Version: 0.17-1
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch
Launching Zim gave me this STDERR message:
WARNING: You don't seem to have any mimeinfo.cache files.
Try running the update-desktop-database command. If you
don't have this command you should install the
desktop-file-utils package. This package is available from
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fdesktop_2dfile_2dutils
You know, there's no need to bother the user with stuff about
upstream tarballs. The desktop-file-utils package is right here:
http://packages.debian.org/stable/devel/desktop-file-utils
and if Zim wants it then it should have told the sysadmin via a
routine "Suggests:" or "Recommends" dependency.
The attached patch just adds a Suggests, so users may still
occasionally see the warning but you can blame the sysadmin.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i586)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.hurakan
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages zim depends on:
ii libfile-basedir-perl 0.02-1 Perl module to use the freedesktop
ii libfile-mimeinfo-perl 0.13-1 Perl module to determine file type
ii libgtk2-perl 1:1.140-1 Perl interface to the 2.x series o
ii perl 5.8.8-6.1 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
Versions of packages zim recommends:
ii libgtk2-spell-perl 1.03-2 Perl interface to the GtkSpell lib
ii libgtk2-trayicon-perl 0.04-1 Perl interface to fill the system
-- no debconf information
--
JBR
Ankh kak! (Ancient Egyptian blessing)
diff -ruN zim-0.17.orig/debian/control zim-0.17/debian/control
--- zim-0.17.orig/debian/control 2006-12-08 21:39:10.000000000 +0000
+++ zim-0.17/debian/control 2006-12-08 21:41:23.000000000 +0000
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
Architecture: all
Depends: ${perl:Depends}, libfile-basedir-perl, libfile-mimeinfo-perl,
libgtk2-perl
Recommends: libgtk2-trayicon-perl, libgtk2-spell-perl
+Suggests: desktop-file-utils
Description: a desktop wiki
Zim is a WYSIWYG text editor. It aims at bringing the concept of a wiki to
your desktop. For example every page is saved as a text file with wiki markup.
