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Bug 443088

Summary: sci-visualization/gwyddion installs one or more .desktop files that do not pass validation
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component: New packagesAssignee: Gentoo Science Related Packages <sci>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: minor    
Priority: Normal    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
See Also: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582454
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Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 444206    

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2012-11-14 13:32:01 UTC
 * QA Notice: This package installs one or more .desktop files that do not
 * pass validation.
 * 
 *      /usr/share/applications/gwyddion.desktop: error: (will be fatal in the future): value "Physics" in key "Categories" in group "Desktop Entry" requires another 
category to be present among the following categories: Education;Science
 *      /usr/share/applications/gwyddion.desktop: error: (will be fatal in the future): value "Science" in key "Categories" in group "Desktop Entry" requires another 
category to be present among the following categories: Education
 *
Comment 1 Sébastien Fabbro (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2012-11-30 05:50:01 UTC
if we care for those desktop files, couldn't we:
1) fix eutils.eclass for the make_desktop_entry
2) update automatically the desktop entry from the package manager to be consistent with the eutils class above
Comment 2 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2020-01-21 23:47:36 UTC
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=55f069122bd4cc7ca292e7fd82df330ed75689ca

commit 55f069122bd4cc7ca292e7fd82df330ed75689ca
Author:     David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2020-01-21 23:46:45 +0000
Commit:     David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2020-01-21 23:46:45 +0000

    package.mask: Last rite sci-visualization/gwyddion
    
    Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/443088
    Signed-off-by: David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org>

 profiles/package.mask | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
Comment 3 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester gentoo-dev 2020-01-28 00:11:02 UTC
This seems to be fixed.