Bug#1062781: polari FTBFS with nocheck build profile: ../meson.build:68:6: ERROR: Program 'update-desktop-database' not found or not executable

[Helmut Grohne]

Source: polari
Version: 45.0-2
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs trixie sid

polari fails to build from source when built with the nocheck build
profile. Since trixie, such a failure is considered release-critical. A
build ends with:

| Program gtk-update-icon-cache found: YES (/usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache)
| Program update-desktop-database found: NO
| 
| ../meson.build:68:6: ERROR: Program 'update-desktop-database' not found or not executable
| dh_auto_configure: error: cd obj-x86_64-linux-gnu && DEB_PYTHON_INSTALL_LAYOUT=deb LC_ALL=C.UTF-8 meson setup .. --wrap-mode=nodownload --buildtype=plain --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --libdir=lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -Dpython.bytecompile=-1 returned exit code 1
| make: *** [debian/rules:7: binary] Error 25
| dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2

Please review your <!nocheck> annotations.

Helmut