Bug#741573: Two menu systems

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Sune Vuorela writes ("Re: Bug#741573: Two menu systems"):
> if it takes 5 minutes to write a menu file and 5 minutes to switch to one of 
> those 'old style' window managers and test that it shows up as it should, it 
> is 3000 minutes. Or 1 hour per week in a year.

I don't think you need to test it, if you don't want to.  For
something like a menu file it is perfectly fine to simply take the
patch, as-is, when it's provided.

Really, that should be no more than a simple review, and applying the
patch to your package's vcs.  It shouldn't take you more than a couple
of minutes at most - probably less.

> And I guess that on some uploads, it should be tested again that it
> still shows up as it should. if that happens once pr year pr
> package, it is 30 minutes pr week pr year.

I think you are perfectly entitled to let the people who care about
the Debian menu take care of that testing.

> And if one shouldn't 'consume' the menu, why should one provide data for it? 
> [2]

Different people have different views about which menu is useful.

Clearly one should have the _ability_ to consume the menu.  Whether to
do so by default is a decision for the maintainer of the environment
in question.

Ian.