[Mageia-dev] rpmbuild error

Pascal Terjan pterjan at gmail.com
Mon Apr 9 14:36:19 CEST 2012


On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 13:26, paiiou <paiiou at free.fr> wrote:
> Pascal Terjan <pterjan at ...> writes:
>
>> > /home/georges/rpm/BUILDROOT/thunar-1.3.1-
> 3.mga2.x86_64/usr/share/applications/
>> > thunar-settings.desktop: error: (will be fatal in the future): value
>> > "FileManager" in key "Categories" in group "Desktop Entry" requires another
>> > category to be present among the following categories: System;FileTools
>> > Error on file "/home/georges/rpm/BUILDROOT/thunar-1.3.1-
> 3.mga2.x86_64/usr/share/
>> > applications/thunar-settings.desktop": Failed to validate the created
> desktop
>> > file error: Bad exit status from /home/georges/rpm/tmp/rpm-tmp.6MrRb6
> (%install)
>> >
>> > Any idee?
>> >
>>
>> Yes, as the message says
>> /usr/share/applications/thunar-settings.desktop is not valid
>> See http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/apa.html
>> FileManager is an Additionnal category and can only be used together
>> with System or FileTools
>>
>>
> Thank you Pascal.
> If I indeed understand, one of both categories (System, FileTools) must be
> present.
>
> But I am a novice on the subject.
> There it a dependence which misses?

No

> Is a question it of a lack in the archive Thunar-1.3.1?

This is a bug in the .desktop file provided by thunar.
It should be patched and sent to thunar developpers, or reported to
them and wait for a fix.


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