Bug#314187: lintian: incorrect warning about useless-call-to-update-menus

["Adam D. Barratt" <debian-bts@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

package lintian
retitle 314187 Please update menu checks to use /usr/share/menu
thanks

On Wednesday, June 15, 2005 6:22 AM, Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net>
wrote:

> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.8
> Severity: normal
>
> When I run lintian on one of my packages, it gives me warnings about
> useless calls to update-menus.
[...]
> Well, the warning is kind of right, I don't have a menu file in
> /usr/lib/menu. But, that is because in Debian Policy section 3.1, it
> says they should go in /usr/share/menu, which is where it is:
[...]
> Is this some new check added to lintian on purpose? It contradicts
> current Debian policy...

Section 3.1 of Debian Policy is "The package name". I'm assuming you mean
section 3.1 of http://www.nl.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/
("Debian Menu System"), which *isn't* policy.

That document appears to have last been updated three days ago. At the end
of March, the text in question read

    Packages provided menu files should be in `/usr/lib/menu/'.
     System-local menu files should be in `/etc/menu/'.  User-specific menu
     files should be in `~/.menu/'

so, afaics, no this isn't "some new check added to lintian on purpose" and
it *doesn't* contradict Policy. What's happened is that the menu maintainers
have changed their recommendations as to where menu files should be placed.

Regards,

Adam