Hello Utkarsh, Nilesh, and the rest of the Debian micro team past and
present. Thank you for maintaining this nice package over the years!
I've a couple of related suggestions and a combined patch that I think
would help improve its desktop integration. Or at least, to bring it
closer to what I think upstream are probably intending with their supplied
desktop integration files. I'd love it if you could consider updating the
package with my changes.
1. Please can you remove 02-fix-desktop-file.patch, and instead deploy
upstream's icon into /usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps? In the
package's current state, the user is not able to change the displayed
icon by installing an icon theme[1] because the Icon= path is
hardcoded to "/usr/share/micro/assets/micro-logo-mark.svg".
2. Upstream have been shipping a Metainfo file since 2023. Please can
you update the Debian package to deploy it? It will close a warning[2]
of about the same age in the package tracking system[3].
The patch is quite short, so I've inlined it below. Note that micro now
build-depends on dh-exec, and micro.install must be made executable as
well in Salsa. This way might be more elegant? I think that using dh-exec
to install the icon file under upstream's preferred Icon= name is
technically better too, and should avoid any regression on #1047981. I
haven't noticed any inability to build local sources after a binary build,
or vice versa with these changes, so that seems hopeful.
Looking at the Salsa sources, I assume that Nilesh chose the
/usr/share/micro location as simply a place to drop the logo file back
when it couldn't be renamed by plain old dh_install. That location seems
not to be touched by upstream, and it's not depended upon by any installed
documentation as far as I can tell.
Also of note: upstream appear to be in the process of changing their
GitHub URL. I assume that's on your radar, though.
Thanks in advance for considering these changes,
Andrew.
[1] Such icon themes do exist, and I contribute to one occasionally :)
https://github.com/PapirusDevelopmentTeam/papirus-icon-theme/blob/master/Papirus/64x64/apps/micro.svg
[2] https://appstream.debian.org/sid/main/issues/micro.html
[3] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/micro
PATCH NOTE: micro.install must be made executable.
-------------------- 8< --------------------
diff -rU2 debian.OLD/control debian/control
--- debian.OLD/control 2026-01-17 16:14:36.000000000 +0000
+++ debian/control 2026-05-07 22:58:17.185158099 +0100
@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@
Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13),
dh-golang,
+ dh-exec,
golang-any,
golang-github-blang-semver-dev,
diff -rU2 debian.OLD/micro.install debian/micro.install
--- debian.OLD/micro.install 2026-01-17 15:39:12.000000000 +0000
+++ debian/micro.install 2026-05-07 22:55:56.148014435 +0100
@@ -1,2 +1,4 @@
-assets/micro-logo-mark.svg usr/share/micro/
+#!/usr/bin/dh-exec --with=install
+assets/micro-logo-mark.svg => usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/micro.svg
assets/packaging/micro.desktop usr/share/applications/
+data/io.github.zyedidia.micro.metainfo.xml usr/share/appdata/
Only in debian.OLD/patches: 02-fix-desktop-file.patch
diff -rU2 debian.OLD/patches/series debian/patches/series
--- debian.OLD/patches/series 2026-01-17 15:46:20.000000000 +0000
+++ debian/patches/series 2026-05-07 21:56:57.999054974 +0100
@@ -1,2 +1 @@
01-disable-commit-hash-and-date.patch
-02-fix-desktop-file.patch
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