Bug#56108: general: update-menus cannot read most files in /usr/lib/menu

[Jonathan Pyle <jpyle@law.upenn.edu>]

Package: general
Version: 20000123
Severity: normal

The menus created by update-menus are quite incomplete and I can't figure
out why.  Programs in /usr/bin/X11 are more likely to make it into the menus
than programs in /usr/bin.  Programs whose menu files list explicit paths in
their command strings are very likely to make it into the menus.  The one-line
menu file format works fine, but the other formats do not always work.  It 
might have to do with the program's use of files in /var/lib/dpkg.
I'm stumped.

Jonathan Pyle

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Kernel Version: Linux winthrop 2.2.14 #1 SMP Tue Jan 18 20:57:40 EST 2000 i586 unknown