Package: debian-policy Version: 3.5.10.0 Severity: normal I noticed that the majority of packages that create a new second-level menu (in violation of policy) are in Games/Simulation. http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tmenu-item-creates-new-section.html has the list. Most of the programs there are simulations of the real world (though achilles and matrem are a-life programs, and xlife seems to have been thrown in some reason). There are slow simulations like atc from bsdgames, realistic real-time simulations like flightgear and csmash and gtkpool
Since so many of these are in Games/Simulation, and indeed, there seems
to be no other sensible place to put something like the flightgear
flight simulator, I think we should go ahead and bless this submenu in
the menu subpolicy. However, I don't think that artificial life and
flight simulators belong in the same menu, so I suggest we limit it to
real-world or physical simulations.
--- menu-policy.sgml.old 2003-05-27 20:40:31.000000000 -0400
+++ menu-policy.sgml 2003-05-27 20:54:41.000000000 -0400
@@ -208,6 +208,10 @@
<item>
<p>tests of ingenuity and logic</p>
</item>
+ <tag>Simulation</tag>
+ <item>
+ <p>real world simulations, like flight simulators
+ </item>
<tag>Sports</tag>
<item>
<p>games derived from "real world" sports</p>
I don't know where the three life programs currently in
Games/Simulations should go under this new regime, probably somewhere in
Apps as they're not really games at all. Apps/Science?
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