Hi,

On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 14:46:10 -0500
Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net> wrote:

> How about update-desktop-database?

Don't do update-desktop-database at all.  If the build system tries to do it,
prevent it from doing so.

The reason is that the desktop database is a shared database (shared by
multiple packages) and thus it is updated by a profile hook (which puts
the database into the profile).