recommendations for install of applications and update of MIME cache

[Jerome Leclanche]

Yes, it's reasonable.
J. Leclanche


On 2 March 2015 at 21:15, Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev at gmail.com> wrote:
> I understand that, and I have always noticed that Debian seems to update
> a bunch of desktop stuff as part of post-install scripts. But then this
> assumes that users installing from source are really expected to update
> the mime database themselves. And that they know how to do it. Is this
> really reasonable? It may be, like running ldconfig after install, but
> updating mime cache seems to me to be a bit more obscure.
>
> Carnë
>
> On 2 March 2015 at 19:24, Jerome Leclanche <adys.wh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> This is something that is handled by the downstream packagers and you
>> should not worry about it.
>>
>> Example:
>> https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/kdenlive/trunk/PKGBUILD
>> https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/kdenlive/trunk/kdenlive.install
>> J. Leclanche
>>
>>
>> On 2 March 2015 at 20:18, Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I have an application that as part of its install target (using make),
>>> installs a desktop entry file with "desktop-file-install".  This
>>> application handles files of specific MIME types (listed on the desktop
>>> file) and so it uses the "--rebuild-mime-info-cache" option.
>>>
>>> The problem with this is that during uninstall, the file
>>> "share/applications/mimeinfo.cache" is left behind and distcheck
>>> complains about it.
>>>
>>> I was wondering if this tool is really to be used as part of the
>>> installation of the application.  Or is it meant for downstream packagers
>>> with package managers running them after the installation?  What is
>>> the recommendation for applications?  Should they leave it up for
>>> downstream packagers?  Expect that users building from source will
>>> update the mime database themselves?  Is there some other cleaner way
>>> to do this (I saw some changes on other projects where they replace the
>>> "--rebuild-mime-info-cache" with a separate call to "update-desktop-database",
>>> but why is that?).
>>>
>>> If it makes any difference, the application I am asking is GNU Octave,
>>> which has a bug about it [1].
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>> Carnë
>>>
>>> [1] https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44404
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