Re: question about lintian overrides

[Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>]

Elías Alejandro <ealmdz@gmail.com> writes:

> W: uget: desktop-command-not-in-package
> usr/share/applications/uget-gtk.desktop env
> I've checked the file "uget-gtk.desktop" (created by the upstream) and
> there's a line:
> "Exec=env GDK_BACKEND=x11 uget-gtk %u"

In your opinion, is there a better way to do this? Can the ‘Exec’ value
be re-written so it detects correctly as a command provided by the
package?

> I was thinking solve this issue with an override lintian file:
> uget.lintian-overrides
> but I still get this warning.

You will need to show the content of that file before we can say what
might be wrong with it.

> Do you have experience with this issue? Maybe override it can be a bad
> option?

Maybe; with your knowledge as a maintainer of that package, you might
find a more suitable change that upstream can use.

> Please cc'me.

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Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org>