Bug#1063918: geary FTBFS with the nocheck build profile: ../meson.build:226:6: ERROR: Program 'update-desktop-database' not found or not executable

[Helmut Grohne]

Source: geary
Version: 44.1-1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs trixie sid

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

| ../meson.build:226:6: 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 -Drevno=Debian/44.1-1 -Dprofile=release returned exit code 1
| make[1]: *** [debian/rules:24: override_dh_auto_configure] Error 25
| make[1]: Leaving directory '/<<PKGBUILDDIR>>'
| make: *** [debian/rules:21: binary] Error 2
| dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2

Consider dropping inappropriate <!nocheck> annotations.

Helmut