Package: herbstluftwm Version: 0.2+git2012.03.01-1 Severity: wishlist It'd be good if herbstluftwm was in the debian window managers menu to switch to it from another window manager.
It may be as simple as chucking the menu file below into the sources as debian/menu, which dh_installmenu should automatically install as /usr/share/menu/herbstluftwm. The "install" file below as debian/install makes herbstluftwm.xpm from the sources available as an icon for the menu too. Usually an icon for the menu is meant to have a transparent background. Is the magenta in herbstluftwm.xpm for a particular artistic reason :-) ? If not "None" might be better for the menu (though anything works).
?package(herbstluftwm):needs="wm" \ section="Window Managers" \ title="Herbstluftwm" \ command="/usr/bin/herbstluftwm" \ icon="/usr/share/pixmaps/herbstluftwm.xpm"
share/herbstluftwm.xpm /usr/share/pixmaps
-- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (990, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-486 Locale: LANG=en_AU, LC_CTYPE=en_AU (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages herbstluftwm depends on: ii libc6 2.13-10 ii libglib2.0-0 2.30.2-6 ii libx11-6 2:1.4.4-4 herbstluftwm recommends no packages. herbstluftwm suggests no packages. -- no debconf information