Hi, On Sat, 2017-08-05 at 18:58:13 -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > A.2. Version 4.0.1 > > Released August, 2017. […] > 9.6 > > Packages installing a Free Desktop entry must not also install a > Debian menu system entry.
Well this is still such terrible policy, and even if there was consensual agreement to deprecated the menu system it would also still be a terrible transition plan. :( Worse so given that it was an imposed change from the so called tech-ctte… [ And just to make it explicit here in case people skip the thread refs below, I don't even use the menu system anymore on my systems! ] Please see the thread starting at <https://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2015/09/msg00040.html> and continued at <https://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2015/10/msg00000.html>. At this point I guess the decision to cope fairly with such subpar and imposed policy that a maintainer that has a package shipping both a desktop file and a menu file is either to: - ignore it, very sadly violating policy, :( at least until there's a proper transition plan that does not leave users and WM/DE maintainers in the cold, - protest it, and still be policy compliant, by going the Solomonic route and removing both files. Both options are very suboptimal, though. :( Regards, Guillem
