Re: Bug#15080: seyon: bad location in menus
On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, joost witteveen wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Mar 1998 18:12:52 GMT Steve McIntyre (stevem@chiark.greenen
>> d.org.uk) wrote:
>>
>> > Personally I'd push for Apps/Comm in preference to Apps/Modem, so as to
>> > follow the package section... Joost? As the maintainer of the menu
>> > package, what do you think?
>
>Personally I don't really mind eighter way. I prefer to let the users of
>those programmes (and at the moment I still don't realy use a modem)
>decide the issue.
>
>On the one hand, "Apps/Comm", seems somewhat more general than "Apps/Modem",
>but on the other hand: what really is the difference between
>"Apps/Net" and "Apps/Comm"? Seems to me that if we add a Apps/Comm
>section, the distinction between Apps/Net becomes difficult. Should
>Mutt/Slrn/ftp go to Apps/Comm, or Apps/Net? This problem doesn't
>arise with Apps/Modem, and as it seems that all you really want is
>something to distinguish the general networking utilities (the ones
>that work with an already existing connection), from the ones that help
>you to setup that connection, I think Apps/Comm isn't really as clear
>as it could be. Maybe Apps/Connect, or Apps/NetSetup would be even
>better, but I don't want to blurr the discussion even more :).
:-) OK, in that case I'd agree that Apps/Modem would be a better choice.
Shall we push ahead and add that section to the menus? Or should we ask in
debian-policy first?
>The upstream maintainer is allowed to do things different
>than Debian, but only if he has good reasons to do so.
*grin*
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