Calibre desktop entries are missing from /usr/share/applications

Bug #1708939 reported by Thanos Apostolou
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
calibre (Debian)
Fix Released
Unknown
calibre (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

I am using Ubuntu 17.10 (I have both Ubuntu and Xubuntu installed) and I've noticed that calibre doesn't provide any desktop entries at /usr/share/applications, so the application is not shown in desktop's menu or as a choice to open an epub file with it.

If I'm not mistaken, I remember that at the previous releases, desktop entries existed for both Calibre and Ebook-Viewer. Hope, this get fixed before the final Ubuntu 17.10 release (if this change is an upstream thing, then maybe you can add those desktop entries manually in the package?).

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: calibre 3.4.0+dfsg-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.11.0-13.19-generic 4.11.12
Uname: Linux 4.11.0-13-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.6-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sun Aug 6 18:45:57 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-04 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170804)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: calibre
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Revision history for this message
Thanos Apostolou (thanosapostolou) wrote :
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)
Changed in calibre (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → High
Changed in calibre (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
Revision history for this message
Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package calibre - 3.7.0+dfsg-2

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calibre (3.7.0+dfsg-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * add various missing build-deps
    this fixes missing desktop files and bash-completion (Closes: #871016)

 -- Norbert Preining <email address hidden> Mon, 04 Sep 2017 11:09:09 +0900

Changed in calibre (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Changed in calibre (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
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