[Pkg-octave-devel] Getting rid of the menu file
In order to comply with the Technical Committee decision regarding
Bug#741573 [1], I removed the file debian/octave.menu from the octave
package [commit 0170cd8].
In the process of doing it, I noticed that we are still shipping a .menu
file within the octave-htmldoc package. This file is not concerned by
the tech-ctte decision above, but I am wondering about its usefulness,
because there are no applications shipped in the octave-htmldoc package.
Besides that, I simply do not understand its command= lines:
$ grep command= debian/octave-htmldoc.menu
command="/usr/share/doc/octave-htmldoc/interpreter/index.html"
command="/usr/share/doc/octave-htmldoc/liboctave/index.html"
According section 3.6 of the Debian Menu System documentation [2], the
content of the command field should be an executable file, which is
clearly not the case above. Since there are already
octave-htmldoc.doc-base.* files, I think that we can remove
octave-htmldoc.doc-base.
What do you think?
Rafael
[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2015/09/msg00000.html
[2] https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/ch3.html#s3.6
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