Re: How packaging desktop integration and service menus ?

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Sérgio Basto <sergio@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> <SNIP>
>> How I should package this ? 
>
>Today finally I found the topic of "Desktop files" in section 1.36 of
>Packaging:Guidelines  [1] 
>
>I think desktop files deserve a page like others ( Packaging:Systemd or
>ackaging:AppData  ) also we already got one draft page [2] and we should
>add something about desktop integration, when upstream know what is
>doing, like k3b [3], we got files in write place : 

Is there any chance we can also have a document on packaging symlinks?
There are just so many packages that create symlinks they don't own which are
often broken?

A simple rule should be that a symlink must be owned by the package that owns
the target.

Cheers

johnd

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