The following commit has been merged in the master branch:
commit 2569070dc674058a530b45675a9dd89a98ac415d
Author: Niels Thykier <[email protected]>
Date: Sun Apr 7 17:42:47 2013 +0200
c/menu-format: Explain why menu icons must be XPM
... in the tag description of menu-icon-not-in-xpm-format.
Signed-off-by: Niels Thykier <[email protected]>
diff --git a/checks/menu-format.desc b/checks/menu-format.desc
index 10dbbc5..78a7169 100644
--- a/checks/menu-format.desc
+++ b/checks/menu-format.desc
@@ -128,7 +128,11 @@ Tag: menu-icon-not-in-xpm-format
Severity: important
Certainty: certain
Info: Icons in the Debian menu system should be in XPM format.
-Ref: menu 3.7
+ .
+ While other image types (e.g. png images) appears to "just work",
+ window managers are not "required to support them". Accordingly
+ using non-XPM icons could break interoperability.
+Ref: menu 3.7, #591812
Tag: menu-icon-uses-relative-path
Severity: normal
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 2567891..e86a12a 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -98,6 +98,8 @@ lintian (2.5.12) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
"Science" category. (Closes: #697693)
+ [NT] Apply patch from Thomas Preud'homme to detect uses of
relative icons in menu files. (Closes: #697916)
+ + [NT] Document why only XPM are allowed in the tag description
+ of menu-icon-not-in-xpm-format. (Closes: 591812)
* checks/patch-systems{,.desc}:
+ [NT] Retire unneeded-build-dep-on-quilt, it is only a pedantic
tag and apparently not too accurate. Thanks to Charles Plessy
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