On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 19:42 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I wish you the best of luck resolving this, but I'm not willing to touch > that debate with a ten-foot pole, given the flamewar that happened on > debian-devel the last time. (At least with my Lintian maintainer hat on; > it might be appropriate for Policy.) Hmm, OK. > > For these two reasons I would like lintian to warn/info when there is a > > Debian menu file in the package, but not a freedesktop menu file. > > My understanding is that the GNOME maintainers don't want every package > with a Debian menu file to have a freedesktop.org menu file (if they did, > they wouldn't have disabled the Debian menu). I don't understand why they would want different menus. > I'm happy to have lintian implement the results of any project consensus, > but my impression is that we currently don't have one. Thanks for the info, guess this is something to file in the "wish Debian could do it, but we probably never will" bucket. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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