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

Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer perezmeyer at gmail.com
Wed Jan 8 02:26:03 UTC 2014


On Tuesday 07 January 2014 23:09:55 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
> 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

Please understand "kill" as: let it live if you want, but don't recommend it. 
Or as Charles already wrote: "turn it completely optional at the maintainer's 
discretion".



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  De mí - Charly García

Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
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