Bug#84473: marked as done (please document typical 'hints' and where to find them)

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 12:03:12AM -0700, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > The official list of 'hints' and their definition need to be part of the menu  
> >  policy manual, not of the menu manual.
> 
> 	Why is that? Why should this be hard coded into slow moving
>  policy, rather than being freely extended by the menu package?  There
>  is a legitimate need for this information to be present; but since
>  the maintainer is trying to use the menu package, the documentation
>  of that package needs to be consulted.

The menu package do not need or care about what the hints are.  Debian
as a distribution needs to mandate a set of guideline for section names
and hints name to achieve consistency between packages, e.g. Mandrake
uses the same menu package with a completly different set of section
names.

There is a Debian menu sub-policy for a reason. If for some reason the
policy process does not allow for such sub-policy to be managed, we
will need to move Debian menu sub-policy outside Debian policy I am
afraid.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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