Bug#1121781: gnome-2048 FTBFS with the nocheck profile: ../meson.build:45:6: ERROR: Program 'update-desktop-database' not found or not executable

[Helmut Grohne]

Source: gnome-2048
Version: 50~alpha-1
Severity: serious
Tags: ftbfs

gnome-2048 fails to build from source when enabling the nocheck build
profile. A build ends with:

| Got pkg-config variable glib_compile_schemas : /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/glib-compile-schemas
| Program /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/glib-compile-schemas found: YES (/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/glib-compile-schemas)
| Program gtk4-update-icon-cache found: YES (/usr/bin/gtk4-update-icon-cache)
| Program update-desktop-database found: NO
| 
| ../meson.build:45:6: 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 --bindir=games returned exit code 1
| make[1]: *** [debian/rules:10: override_dh_auto_configure] Error 25
| make[1]: Leaving directory '/build/reproducible-path/gnome-2048-50~alpha'
| make: *** [debian/rules:7: binary] Error 2
| dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules binary subprocess returned exit status 2

I suspect that desktop-file-utils should not be annotated <!nocheck>.

Helmut