Re: Debian Policy 4.0.1.0 released

2017-08-31 Thread Markus Koschany
Am 31.08.2017 um 18:53 schrieb Andrey Rahmatullin: [...] >> Well there is of course a nuclear option. I don't have the effort for >> this, but, the nuclear option for trad Debian menu supporters would be >> to: >> >> * Package xdg-menu-convert but provide it with a mechanism that allows >> a

Re: Debian Policy 4.0.1.0 released

2017-08-31 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 05:33:12PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > structures. Any transition plan which did that based on xdg files > would be quite horrible because it would involve mixing, in a single > file, data maintained by the trad Debian menu folks with data > maintained by the XDG folks.

Re: Debian Policy 4.0.1.0 released

2017-08-31 Thread Ian Jackson
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud writes ("Re: Debian Policy 4.0.1.0 released"): > One "proper transition plan" has been proposed, and there was no > visible result in almost two years; it's certainly sad > that`xdg-menu` (from Arch, see [1]) has not been packaged; nor did >

Re: Debian Policy 4.0.1.0 released

2017-08-06 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sun, 06 Aug 2017 12:04:19 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > Anyone interested in helping with continued support for classic window > managers should consider working on packaging for > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdg-menu , and perhaps forming a > maintenance team for it. And if it

Re: Debian Policy 4.0.1.0 released

2017-08-06 Thread Josh Triplett
Anyone interested in helping with continued support for classic window managers should consider working on packaging for https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdg-menu , and perhaps forming a maintenance team for it. And if it doesn't support your window manager or desktop of choice, consider

Re: Debian Policy 4.0.1.0 released

2017-08-06 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 09:54:01AM -0400, Didier 'OdyX' Raboud wrote: > The next step is that this policy change is likely to find its way as a > Lintian > warning (or error). The same lintian tag that has been around since Oct 2015?

Re: Debian Policy 4.0.1.0 released

2017-08-06 Thread Didier 'OdyX' Raboud
For further reference, the full TC decision text is at: [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/09/msg0.html Le dimanche, 6 août 2017, 11.40:26 h EDT Guillem Jover a écrit : > At this point I guess the decision to cope fairly with such subpar and > imposed policy that a

Re: Debian Policy 4.0.1.0 released

2017-08-06 Thread Guillem Jover
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