Bug#443509: menu policy checks may be ahead of their time
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 1.23.34
> Severity: normal
> The menu policy checks such as menu-item-uses-apps-section tell me to
> check "Debian Menu sub-policy 2.1". But the web site and the current
> debian-policy package still contain what is presumably considered the
> old version of the menu policy, which contains an Apps section. There
> is no information in the obvious places that tells what this new menu
> policy is supposed to be or what authority it carries.
The problem here, unfortunately, is Policy. The new menu policy is
available in the menu package and is already being implemented, but Policy
is lagging way behind reality (and not just in this area).
Need more hands....
Our documentation is therefore in wretched condition, but I believe that
lintian is still correct so far as that goes, and I don't want to hold up
the menu transition just because Policy isn't cutting it.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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