Re: Bug#707851: debian-policy: soften the wording recommending menu files

[Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>]

Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> writes:

> Linking to it explicitly might make sense then, indeed. Even if the
> desktop file spec already links to that, I think it makes sense to
> explicitly say "we care about consistency in categories, and here's the
> list of categories you should use". If we later on decide to add
> additional categories that the upstream fdo spec doesn't list, we can
> always add our own categories to (a sub-)policy.

Here's what's currently available -- what do you think?

    http://standards.freedesktop.org/menu-spec/latest/

See in particular sections A and B.

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>