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Re: XDG Menu Spec compliance



Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org> writes:
> Le mardi 12 décembre 2006 à 09:17 +0100, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt a écrit:
>> gnome-menu looks OK-ish (though I don't understand the shlibs bump)
>> gnome-panel, bug-buddy and eel2 look fine.
> The shlibs bump was added to automatically increase the requirement for
> these 3 packages on libgnome-menus2. Before the change, they needed to
> ask for gnome-applications.menu instead of applications.menu. Now, the
> renaming is automatically done within gnome-menus, but if you install
> e.g. the new gnome-panel with a pre-2.16.1-1 libgnome-menu2, you'll end
> up with an empty menu.

Ah, OK.

>> I don't understand why only these few packages need to be fixed - what's
>> up with other packages (such as alacarte, for example)?
> Alacarte does indeed need to be fixed, as it uses
> gnome-applications-merged instead of applications-merged. However,
> fixing alacarte would require API additions to python-xdg, which doesn't
> look reasonable for etch.

Will alacarte be useable with the new version of libgnome-menu? I just
want to know if anything would break in such a step to partial
standard-compliance.

Marc
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