[Fedora-packaging] DesktopFiles proposal, final wording

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Jan 31 06:57:05 UTC 2007


Chitlesh GOORAH wrote:
> On 1/30/07, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
>> As spot requested, here's an update to the wording of:
>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/DesktopFiles
>> to make it clear that desktop-file-install usage is mandatory to help
>> ensure .desktop file safety and spec-compliance.
> I think mentioning vendor-id is useless, since now fedora packaging
> policies doesn't include "fedora" as vendor name .
Uh, yes it does:
"If upstream uses <vendor_id>, leave it intact, otherwise use fedora as 
<vendor_id>."
That part of the policy remains unchanged.

-- Rex




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