Bug#707851: Soften the the wording recommending menu files: let's do it in Jessie.

[Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer]

On Wednesday 08 January 2014 08:33:31 Charles Plessy wrote:
> No comment from the GNOME and KDE teams ?  What do you think of the
> corrections that I proposed below, and of the patch in general ?

Not to be taken as "KDE team" reply, but here's my opinion.

On Sunday 05 January 2014 14:53:12 Charles Plessy wrote:
> First of all, about the core of Sune's request to “soften the the wording
> recommending menu files”, in the current policy, it is already a should.  To
> make this one softer would be to turn it completely optional at the
> maintainer's discretion, which does not make sense for a menu that aims at
> being comprehensive.

That's right. So in my opinion we should simply kill the Debian menu system 
and let other environments implement the FreeDesktop one. The Debian menu 
system did serve it's purpose, now there is a much wider standard, so let's 
avoid wasting our time patching the holes on those who did not yet implemented 
it.

So yes, I'm taken here a more aggressive standpoint that Sune took in his 
first mail.

Kinds regards, Lisandro.

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Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
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