Re: Debian Menu transition status

Quoting Bill Allombert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > 1) About 60% of menu files had been updated to the new menu sections. > There are still 672 packages to update. > >

Re: Is menu orphaned? (Was: Debian Menu transition status)

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Bill Allombert wrote: Your check 'grep -q -c ^!C' is wrong and useless since it might catch !C in the middle of the file. It is simpler to always add !C menu-1 inconditionnally. Right if "!C menu-2" comes next there is no harm if "!C menu-1" is inserted before. I'll chang

Re: Is menu orphaned? (Was: Debian Menu transition status)

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 05:42:27PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Bill Allombert wrote: > Before I think about a patch I wonder whether this is really > working for any window manager. I changed cdd-menu accordingly > which you can see at > > > http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/

Re: Is menu orphaned? (Was: Debian Menu transition status)

On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Bill Allombert wrote: On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:10:29AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Bill Allombert wrote: Actually this is not true: You can just add !C menu-1 to the start of each files (or each menu-1 files if you prefer) before concatening them. Men

Re: Is menu orphaned? (Was: Debian Menu transition status)

On Sun, 9 Dec 2007, Bill Allombert wrote: OK, this hint (is it documented somewhere?) would probably help Not yet, though you are welcome to provide a patch for the menu manual. As ususal. I hope there are not even more hidden/undocumented features which are waiting for patches in the docs.

Re: Is menu orphaned? (Was: Debian Menu transition status)

On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 11:10:29AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Bill Allombert wrote: > > >Actually this is not true: You can just add > >!C menu-1 > >to the start of each files (or each menu-1 files if you prefer) > >before concatening them. > >Menu change format each time it

Re: Is menu orphaned? (Was: Debian Menu transition status)

On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:48:22AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > >Anyway, if you have some cdd scripts that are broken by menu-2, please > >send them to me and I am sure we will fix them in a short time. > > Well, I'm sure that /usr/share/menu/cdd-menu (from cdd-common) can be > fixed to cope with

Re: Is menu orphaned? (Was: Debian Menu transition status)

On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Bill Allombert wrote: Actually this is not true: You can just add !C menu-1 to the start of each files (or each menu-1 files if you prefer) before concatening them. Menu change format each time it see a !C request, even inside a file. OK, this hint (is it documented somewhe

Re: Is menu orphaned? (Was: Debian Menu transition status)

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 07:48:22 +0100 (CET), Andreas Tille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Bill Allombert wrote: >> The menu entry format is not documented in the menu policy, so this >> discard #447389. > Well, you are right that policy should not _describe_ the menu format, > but

Re: Is menu orphaned? (Was: Debian Menu transition status)

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Bill Allombert wrote: The menu entry format is not documented in the menu policy, so this discard #447389. Well, you are right that policy should not _describe_ the menu format, but policy should definitely _mention_ that there are at least two formats and should give an _a

Re: Is menu orphaned? (Was: Debian Menu transition status)

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:51:25PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > My problem is that after 8 years the first menu file that is > actually using it broke a script in cdd-common and I have no > idea how to fix this because there is no description of this > format. > > >I don't see how it is relevant

Re: Is menu orphaned? (Was: Debian Menu transition status)

On Mon, 3 Dec 2007, Bill Allombert wrote: Indeed another conclusion you just drawn was that I never actually received your email. I am not subscribed to debian-devel, and I did not post to that list. Instead I posted to debian-devel-announce. My email ended in debian-devel for reasons I did not

Re: Is menu orphaned? (Was: Debian Menu transition status)

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 10:24:42PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > well, waiting more than five weeks for an answer to a question > that at least I would regard as urgent seems to show enough > patience. The only conclulsion I could draw is that menu is > not really maintained any more. I'

Is menu orphaned? (Was: Debian Menu transition status)

Hi, well, waiting more than five weeks for an answer to a question that at least I would regard as urgent seems to show enough patience. The only conclulsion I could draw is that menu is not really maintained any more. I'm particularly interested in this question because if this is the case I s

Re: Debian Menu transition status

On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Bill Allombert wrote: > Others changes: > === > > -- Menu support a new format called "menu-2" since 8 years. Uhmmm, this is one of the strangest sentences I read on this list this year. At which time scale you would regard eight years old as new (at least in the

Re: Debian Menu transition status

On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 06:12:33PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > This is a status update for the Debian Menu transition. > 2) Some common mistakes to avoid: > > - Do not put menu entries _directly_ under Applications/Science, > Applications/System and Applications/Network, but in one of >

Debian Menu transition status

Dear developers, This is a status update for the Debian Menu transition. 1) About 25% of menu files had been updated to the new menu section. This is promising, but unfortunately, only about 25% of menu files in removed/split sections have been updated, so there is still a lot of packages to chan