Re: freedesktop and Debian menu files

2008-04-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 19:42 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: I wish you the best of luck resolving this, but I'm not willing to touch that debate with a ten-foot pole, given the flamewar that happened on debian-devel the last time. (At least with my Lintian maintainer hat on; it might be

Re: freedesktop and Debian menu files

2008-04-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Debian GNOME no longer shows the Debian menu by default, users have to set the Debian item in the menu to visible to get it. In my opinion the Debian-specific menu should be phased out in favour of the cross-distro freedesktop menu, with a transition like

Re: freedesktop and Debian menu files

2008-04-25 Thread Russ Allbery
Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 19:42 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: My understanding is that the GNOME maintainers don't want every package with a Debian menu file to have a freedesktop.org menu file (if they did, they wouldn't have disabled the Debian menu). I don't