Le jeudi, 3 août 2017, 08.53:09 h CEST Didier 'OdyX' Raboud a écrit :
> Le mardi, 1 août 2017, 11.01:10 h CEST Sean Whitton a écrit :
> > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 02:55:31PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote:
> > > We also approved the decision that packages should not include both a
> > > menu file and a desktop file.
> >
> > For reference, Policy currently says that packages should include a
> > desktop file, and may also include a menu file for the sake of old
> > window managers.
> > > The action to draft language for that has stalled in the policy
> > > process.
> >
> > Is there a policy bug that got stalled? If not, maybe this bug should
> > just be reassigned to policy?
I now gathered some old memories and remembered that there was indeed a bug
about this that got stalled: #707851 (which was the TC bug). See from message
#475 (September 2015), where I tried to push a wording quite similar to yours
to Policy:
> + Applications that are registred in the desktop menu shall not also
> + provide a <em>Debian menu</em> file for the same application.
So https://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2015/09/msg00024.html is the start
of the thread that stalled.
I read the arguments back then as critics against the TC decision itself, not
discussions about the wording. My argument back then (and it has not changed)
is that now that the TC decision is made, it should find it's way into the
Policy.
So… I'm fine with your wording, but thought it'd be useful to point at the
previous discussion about this very subject.
Cheers,
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