Bug#741573: Two menu systems
Ian Jackson wrote:
> I think you are perfectly entitled to let the people who care about
> the Debian menu take care of that testing.
As others have pointed out, that's a level a lot lower in everyone's
current understanding of what "should" means in the context of policy. This
may not be what was intended by the policy authors, but I think the average
maintainer reads "should" as something that *they* are supposed to do
unless they have a good technical reason. As Russ has pointed out, that is
certainly how it is presented to new maintainers in our mentors process and
there is an expectation there that the maintainer (not some other 3rd
party) is will ensure that their packages conform to the million little
"should"s in policy.
Policy already lists "may" as the word to use for things that are optional.
To me, Ian's statement above sounds a lot like a suggestion that packages
*may* provide trad menu files, not *should* provide.
Stuart
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