Bug#89039: Not policy's job?

[Seth Arnold <sarnold@willamette.edu>]

Frank, I understand Debian Policy's purpose is to document what Debian
considers good practice, not document the tools that may be used. Thus,
I think it is perfectly acceptable for Debian Policy to defer to the
update-menu documentation for the proper format of the menu files.

If this bug is suggesting that the information should be available
somewhere, then the menufile(5) manpage may be useful. However, if you
think that Debian Policy is the correct place for the menu file syntax,
please followup with reasons why Debian Policy should include it rather
than let the update-menu tool's documentation describe its configuration
files.

(I seem to recall another bug that wanted to move documentation into
policy, possibly involving mime-support, but I cannot find it now. It
may be useful to discuss both simultaneously.)

Thanks. :)

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