Re: New desktop-file-utils release

[Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>]

On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 01:09 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (I'm not sending this to gnome-announce-list, since I'd like to get
> attention of downstream packagers :-))
> 
> I made a new release of desktop-file-utils, available at
> http://people.freedesktop.org/~vuntz/ for now (I don't have write access
> to http://www.freedesktop.org/software/desktop-file-utils/releases/ but
> as soon as I'll get it, it'll be uploaded there).
> 
> This release features a rewritten-from-scratch desktop file validator.
> It should work better, and it has been updated for the last version of
> the desktop entry spec. However, since it's been rewritten, it's
> likely that new bugs have been introduced.

Who rewrote it, and why was a rewrite necessary ?