[SCM] Debian package checker branch, master, updated. 2.5.11-228-g2569070

["Niels Thykier" <niels@thykier.net>]

The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 2569070dc674058a530b45675a9dd89a98ac415d
Author: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
Date:   Sun Apr 7 17:42:47 2013 +0200

    c/menu-format: Explain why menu icons must be XPM
    
    ... in the tag description of menu-icon-not-in-xpm-format.
    
    Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>

diff --git a/checks/menu-format.desc b/checks/menu-format.desc
index 10dbbc5..78a7169 100644
--- a/checks/menu-format.desc
+++ b/checks/menu-format.desc
@@ -128,7 +128,11 @@ Tag: menu-icon-not-in-xpm-format
 Severity: important
 Certainty: certain
 Info: Icons in the Debian menu system should be in XPM format.
-Ref: menu 3.7
+ .
+ While other image types (e.g. png images) appears to "just work",
+ window managers are not "required to support them".  Accordingly
+ using non-XPM icons could break interoperability.
+Ref: menu 3.7, #591812
 
 Tag: menu-icon-uses-relative-path
 Severity: normal
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 2567891..e86a12a 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -98,6 +98,8 @@ lintian (2.5.12) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
       "Science" category.  (Closes: #697693)
     + [NT] Apply patch from Thomas Preud'homme to detect uses of
       relative icons in menu files.  (Closes: #697916)
+    + [NT] Document why only XPM are allowed in the tag description
+      of menu-icon-not-in-xpm-format.  (Closes: 591812)
   * checks/patch-systems{,.desc}:
     + [NT] Retire unneeded-build-dep-on-quilt, it is only a pedantic
       tag and apparently not too accurate.  Thanks to Charles Plessy

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