Your message dated Sat, 17 Dec 2022 03:04:04 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#975631: fixed in debian-policy 4.6.2.0 has caused the Debian Bug report #975631, regarding debian-policy: window manager: remove reference to Debian menu to be marked as done.
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--- Begin Message ---Package: debian-policy Version: 4.5.1.0 Severity: normal Tags: patch Section 11.8.4 "Packages providing a window manager" still references the Debian menu. But the Debian menu is deprecated. I suggest to remove the reference, for example with the patch below. Ansgar --- a/policy/ch-customized-programs.rst +++ b/policy/ch-customized-programs.rst @@ -345,13 +345,7 @@ Packages that provide a window manager should declare in their alternative for ``/usr/bin/x-window-manager``, with a priority calculated as follows: -- Start with a priority of 20. - -- If the window manager supports the Debian menu system, add 20 points - if this support is available in the package's default configuration - (i.e., no configuration files belonging to the system or user have to - be edited to activate the feature); if configuration files must be - modified, add only 10 points. +- Start with a priority of 40. - If the window manager complies with `The Window Manager Specification Project <https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/wm-spec>`_,
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--- Begin Message ---Source: debian-policy Source-Version: 4.6.2.0 Done: Sean Whitton <[email protected]> We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of debian-policy, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive. A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is attached. Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you have further comments please address them to [email protected], and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Sean Whitton <[email protected]> (supplier of updated debian-policy package) (This message was generated automatically at their request; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Format: 1.8 Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 19:41:44 -0700 Source: debian-policy Architecture: source Version: 4.6.2.0 Distribution: unstable Urgency: medium Maintainer: Debian Policy Editors <[email protected]> Changed-By: Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Closes: 823256 953911 975631 992136 1020238 1020241 1020243 1020248 1020267 Changes: debian-policy (4.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=medium . [ Sean Whitton ] * Policy: Update alternatives system priorities for window managers Wording: Ansgar <[email protected]> Seconded: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Seconded: Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Closes: #975631 * Policy: Clarify udeb-only source packages are out of scope Wording: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Seconded: Holger Levsen <[email protected]> Seconded: Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Closes: #992136 . [ Russ Allbery ] * Policy: Add new-version argument to several maintainer script calls Wording: Russ Allbery <[email protected]> Seconded: Sean Whitton <[email protected]> Seconded: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> Closes: #823256 * Policy: Essential packages must work only if previously configured Wording: Helmut Grohne <[email protected]> Seconded: Santiago Vila <[email protected]> Seconded: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> Closes: #1020267 * Prefer "portion" to "stanza" when describing parts of the Vcs-Git header to avoid confusion with blocks of fields in deb822. Thanks to Charles Plessy for pointing out the inconsistency. . [ Guillem Jover ] * Terminology fixes. (Closes: #1020248) - Refer to blocks of fields in deb822 files as stanzas, not paragraphs. This aligns terminology with dpkg and reduces confusion with text paragraphs found in, for example, the Description field. * Policy: Replace references to PGP with OpenPGP. (Closes: #1020243) * Whitespace and quoting fixes. (Closes: #1020238) - Remove trailing whitespace and convert tabs to spaces in all files. - Avoid use of unbalanced single quotes. * copyright-format: Formatting improvements. (Closes: #1020241) - Put Source after Format in examples. - Reformat GPL examples to be more compact. - Use URLs rather than postal addresses in GPL examples. - Move the comment about where the GPL can be found on Debian systems to a separate Comment block in examples, rather than including it in the License text. - Apply wrap-and-sort -ast formatting to Files fields in the examples. . [ Daniel Shahaf ] * Add an English description of the format of bug closers in the changelog file, alongside the Perl-compatible regular expression. (Closes: #953911) Checksums-Sha1: 68020ea0f9df088391fed23bc80416df72e487c4 2110 debian-policy_4.6.2.0.dsc 043fcb99be4d3d2baf8df2f8ca6de851f0f65952 553052 debian-policy_4.6.2.0.tar.xz Checksums-Sha256: 0a218d72f61712c86b66a1230cafde57ac73ee86f0a7994dcdc821f98c798d6f 2110 debian-policy_4.6.2.0.dsc 9ac321d91c6f6172d73fa7f6a59559e2f6d4b764921e2334ce6f891c11dde09f 553052 debian-policy_4.6.2.0.tar.xz Files: 4c6e9d77f982a692fa26de9cc65a7002 2110 doc optional debian-policy_4.6.2.0.dsc a9019d3ec96a9c6992050ea4ffd43f96 553052 doc optional debian-policy_4.6.2.0.tar.xz -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEm5FwB64DDjbk/CSLaVt65L8GYkAFAmOdLJIACgkQaVt65L8G YkAHZA//ZX0MECFXMtReEBV8qEolC+vwdewHyRLvbu9NrIRk1Wja+FuwCU1w9sP4 U1lmzDCTNkWoweme98tsqRw0umfZCQRBJAC9GEMqRFZQqEYShfYxATFiLV9ya2q9 oKt1NisN/83hrJUbd5FtR02LUVty06OaDTH+IeUa6NpoPTtY0vDrl1YXjrPMmH08 2gJwcHViR6rk6RRPZJZMRFEslkM3RyoiWecapU3oFLtscYMq+BPi4vsBhKqQ7C39 xn0M8t7hWcHzt4Kb9MT2aT89KaR7aCnvtgZZqCDvteAKdvwnnIbKJKqC9M+D8I2j AE9zYd/6u/0zy0T74FrQ8y9SHVcGb7nY7tEGOsfJ2MekpllubxMQ4DiP3uGHbOBm q/eyeOtxeD9kk7ONmUCkEXwIz292hRSyEh+WEr2zTf7HqEKeR6zik6UUn8oLJWCv UCUitgdPJyUS4EYnY3n79vvIoTXuu/3LeWAvlh9k02avTeGFLEybKBg0kTV6m9z0 26OaxEFMco5XFIC7CZTeNj0LQttP+C3Pck3K7imfBr6IFNDOsEhION6JXm19AB6W CU7BpFFiLQxuHhHSLzgIbuQE+KyywgReXUf339qQGbgD8jHeMBl6EECFaKTWPlA0 nd885fjVrXMchyj+dtQc+BOFB6EOH1sBwNjug5jbPxbjI6a6fHc= =C64N -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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