Description:

desktop-file-install needs to emit a characterization (of the form noted in: man 1 logger -- ie., warning, error, etc) along with the message, to permit 'grep' automated identification of warnings and errors

Example of the problem:

see:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=459924#c16

where the warning messages were overlooked, because of the absence of such notation

[herrold@centos-5 homestead]$ desktop-file-install --vendor=orc
--dir=/var/tmp/homestead-0.86-1orc-root-herrold/usr/share/applications
/home/herrold/rpmbuild/SOURCES/homestead.desktop

/home/herrold/rpmbuild/SOURCES/homestead.desktop: missing encoding  (guessed
UTF-8)

/home/herrold/rpmbuild/SOURCES/homestead.desktop: key "Categories" string list
not semicolon-terminated, fixing
[herrold@centos-5 homestead]$

Proposal:

The expected output should have been of the form

[herrold@centos-5 homestead]$ desktop-file-install --vendor=orc
--dir=/var/tmp/homestead-0.86-1orc-root-herrold/usr/share/applications
/home/herrold/rpmbuild/SOURCES/homestead.desktop

/home/herrold/rpmbuild/SOURCES/homestead.desktop: warning: missing encoding  (guessed
UTF-8)

/home/herrold/rpmbuild/SOURCES/homestead.desktop: warning: key "Categories" string list
not semicolon-terminated, fixing
[herrold@centos-5 homestead]$


Benefit:

Automated, and indeed careful builders can then more readily SEE and FIX warnings and errors.

-- Russ herrold