Bug 444728

Summary:	silence some warnings for desktop-file-validate
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Julian Ospald <hasufell>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	Keywords:	InVCS
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	445274

Description Julian Ospald 2012-11-25 19:06:38 UTC

the spec does not say that only one main category is allowed http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html

but we will get a "hint" on that from desktop-file-validate:
/usr/share/applications/spacefm.desktop: hint: value "System;FileTools;Utility;Core;GTK;FileManager;" for key "Categories" in group "Desktop Entry" contains more than one main category; application might appear more than once in the application menu

That's fine for the tool, but should be silenced in portage imo. It's not fatal and might even be on purpose, so people should not report this.

desktop-file-validate has an option called "--no-hints"
maybe we should just use that since hints are not about spec non-compliance.

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2012-11-25 20:50:06 UTC

This is fixed in git:

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=ad24e372f5059dc1d6688e0fd01fb4fdb38f2908

Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2012-12-08 18:23:24 UTC

This is fixed in 2.1.11.33 and 2.2.0_alpha144.