Le Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 10:01:27PM -0700, Keith Packard a écrit : > > Thinking about this tonight, I've rewritten option D as AB + patch. > OPTION D': > > Using its power under §6.1.1 to decide on any matter of technical > policy, and its power under §6.1.5 to offer advice: > > 1. The Technical Committee adopts the changes proposed by Charles > Plessy in ba679bff[1]. > > 2. In addition to those changes, the Technical Committee resolves > that packages providing a .desktop file shall not also provide a > menu file for the same application. > > 3. We further resolve that "menu programs" should not depend on the > Debian Menu System and should instead rely on .desktop file > contents for constructing a list of applications to present to > the user. > > 4. We advise the maintainers of the 'menu' package to update that > package to reflect this increased focus on .desktop files by > modifying the 'menu' package to use .desktop files for the > source of menu information in addition to menu files. > > 5. Discussion of the precise relationship between menu file > section/hints values and .desktop file Categories values may be > defined within the Debian Menu sub-policy and Debian Menu > System. > > 6. Further modifications to the menu policy are allowed using the > normal policy modification process. > > [1]: > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dbnpolicy/policy.git/commit/?id=ba679bff76f5b9152f43d5bc901b9b3aad257479
Thanks a lot, Keith, I think that this is much clearer and integrates very well in the ballot. Minor points follow, but I am happy with the current ballot and do not want to introduce further delays. - When I asked for acknowledgement, I was reffering not to the Policy patch, but to the wiki page from 2008 <https://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/DebianMenuUsingDesktopEntries>. However, if option D' does not contain anymore the transition plan of option D, there is no need to mention the wiki page anymore. - Since the only difference between options A and B is a statement on the Policy process that is orthogonal to the technical decision on the menu, I would recommend to just drop option B. This is in line with the fact that option D' here is following A.1 and not B.1. Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan