CI Test environment has no desktop installed

[philclifford]

The CI doesn't install a desktop into the default test environment, hence the lack of desktop-file-utils

This can cause desktop applications that assume rather than properly depend on a desktop or one of its dependencies to fail.

see here

Our correct behaviour is to wait for the upstream packaging to pass the CI as-is. Other behaviours are possible (in forks) , but "fixing" the CI environment to add a minimal desktop (e.g. install ubuntu-desktop-minimal ) could be considered.

[philclifford]

Morphic resonance. Further automated test failures for desktop apps because there's no minimal desktop support in the test environment. I think the software is telling me to rethink and just fix the test.