How to prevent quickly from replacing Exec=.* in the .desktop file?

Question

I'm still trying to make Quicklists work and found the problem: Quickly creates debian/rules with

sed -i 's|Exec=.*|Exec=/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/wakeonplan/bin/wakeonplan|' debian/wakeonplan/usr/share/applications/extras-wakeonplan.desktop; \

How do I stop it from doing so to use a static quicklist with CLI options?

Answer 1

I think you've hit a bug in Quickly.

As a workaround, you can do the following:

1. Open a terminal
2. Run quickly package --extras
3. Edit the rules file in the debian folder of your project and fix that sed line
4. Now run: debuild -S
5. And finally run: dput ppa:yourusername/ppa ../projectname_*_source.changes

Troubleshooting

If you are getting signature errors, ensure you've added the following at the end of the ~/.bashrc file:

export DEBFULLNAME='Your name'
export DEBEMAIL='[email protected]'

Note that:

• The values of DEBFULLNAME and DEBEMAIL should match those of your GPG key.
• You'll need to restart the terminal for the changes to have effect, or alternatively run source ~/.bashrc to reload the file
• You should check that the debian/changelog file has got a valid e-mail that matches DEBFULLNAME and DEBEMAIL too
• You might need to update the version number in the debian/changelog file. In any case, ensure that there is no -public suffix, or anything else with -