On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 09:33:49AM +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Wednesday, June 15, 2005 6:22 AM, Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > When I run lintian on one of my packages, it gives me warnings about > > useless calls to update-menus. > [...] > > Well, the warning is kind of right, I don't have a menu file in > > /usr/lib/menu. But, that is because in Debian Policy section 3.1, it > > says they should go in /usr/share/menu, which is where it is: > [...] > > Is this some new check added to lintian on purpose? It contradicts > > current Debian policy... > > Section 3.1 of Debian Policy is "The package name". I'm assuming you mean > section 3.1 of http://www.nl.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html/ > ("Debian Menu System"), which *isn't* policy. > > That document appears to have last been updated three days ago. At the end > of March, the text in question read > > Packages provided menu files should be in `/usr/lib/menu/'. > System-local menu files should be in `/etc/menu/'. User-specific menu > files should be in `~/.menu/' > > so, afaics, no this isn't "some new check added to lintian on purpose" and > it *doesn't* contradict Policy. What's happened is that the menu maintainers > have changed their recommendations as to where menu files should be placed.
This is correct. What happens here is that debhelper was also updated to put menu entries in /usr/share/menu. Lintian should now support both locations, though use of /usr/lib/menu should trigger a warning since it is only for executable binaries menufiles and there are none in Debian currently. Cheers, -- Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
