Bug#741573: Two menu systems
Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer writes ("Bug#741573: Two menu systems"):
> On Friday 11 April 2014 16:10:01 you wrote:
> > Can you come up with any examples where "should" is used in a way that
> > _does not_ permit a maintainer to disregard it if it appears to be a
> > more work than they care to put in ?
>
> Sure: that's seems to be the general understanding of the word:
> someone already gave the debian-mentors example,
I'm afraid that's not what I meant by an example. I meant a
particular use of the word in the policy document.
> Stuart had the same understanding, I had the same
> understanding. And this seems to be one of the root causes of all
> this mess. Do we have a general misunderstanding of the real meaning
> of the word? Excellent, let's make it clear with this discussion!
> [0]
At the very least there is already some confusion here because
different people are saying different things about (for example)
doc-base entries and manpages.
> Now allow me to use "should" as you understand it, and let me
> express, for the sake of adding another possibility, another
> "solution": maintainers "should" provide either the "trad" or
> "desktop" menu, and once they pick one of them the other becomes a
> "may".
I don't think this is a sensible thing to say. In my view the two
systems aren't alternatives in that way so an entry in one system
doesn't affect the need (or lack of need) for an entry in the other.
If one wanted to unify the two systems idea then what you suggest is
one possible approach to that but for the reasons I have explained I
don't think trying to unify them is a good idea.
Ian.
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