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postinst-does-not-call-updatemenus

Since the package installs a file in /etc/menu-methods, /usr/share/menu, or /usr/lib/menu, the package should probably call the update-menus command in it's postinst script.

For example, use the following code in your maintainer script:

if which update-menus > /dev/null; then update-menus ; fi

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The tag is present in Lintian version 2.114.163. That is the most recent version we know about.

We use semantic versions. The patch number is a commit step indicator relative to the 2.112.0 release tag in our Git repository.

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Visibility: error

The following 1 source packages in the archive triggered the tag 1 times (in any Lintian version).

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