LINTIAN

# `pkg-not-in-package-test`

The given `menu` item does not check if the package that ships the application is installed.

Each `menu` item should begin with a check that the required packages are installed. At a minimum, the condition should check that the package that ships the application is installed.

Menu items are normally shiiped in the same package that also provides the application the `menu` item is for.

Sometimes this issue arises the package name was mespelled in the `menu` entry, or an entry was copied from another package but not properly adjusted.

Severity: | `warning`
Experimental: | `false`

## See also

- Syntax (Section 3.2) in the Debian Menu System

- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag