dh_desktop doesn't look in all necessary folders

[Adna rim]

dh_desktop just looks for new .desktop files in /usr/share/applications. But packages which aren't installed through the offical repositorys should by convention be installed in /usr/local and so also the correct folder for their .desktop file is /usr/local/share/applications. But dh_desktop doesn't care about this folder.

That's imo a bug.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

I disagree with your premise. /usr/local is for unpackaged applications, outside the control of dpkg, not necessarily for packages outside the official repositories (such a convention would make it excessively difficult to test packages before including them in Ubuntu; besides, *whose* official repositories exactly? If this convention actually existed then I'm sure that Debian would say that Ubuntu packages don't count ...). Packaged applications should install .desktop files in /usr/share/applications.

I'd like to close this bug, since I don't think this would be a correct change. Do you agree based on my statement above?

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Nowadays, this is controlled by /var/lib/dpkg/info/desktop-file-utils.triggers rather than by a debhelper script.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

closing since the submitter doesn't reply to the comment and the local directory is not a packaging one