Bug#856840: gnome-menus: Please drop blacklist mechanism

[Laurent Bigonville]

Package: gnome-menus
Version: 3.13.3-8
Severity: normal

Hi,

I propose to drop the blacklist mechanism in buster.

This mechanism is 100% debian specific, is not working in wayland and
feels like a perpetual race against packages adding (boggus) .desktop
files.

Also the choice of the blacklisted .desktop file seems pretty random
(ie. why vim.desktop??)

IMHO we should work with the providers of the .desktop files and fix them
(good naming, high res icons, proper NotShowIn keys,...)

I've opened two lintian bugs #854134 and #854132. Others checks should
probably also be added.

Cheers,

Laurent Bigonville

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.0
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-menus depends on:
pn  python3:any  <none>

gnome-menus recommends no packages.

gnome-menus suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information