hi,
someone on irc wondered about icons and Debian packages so I noticed
https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu-policy/
prominently linked from https://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#policy
But then I though the menu system has been deprecated as eg noted in
#975631:
On Tue, Nov
On Tue, 20 Sep 2022 at 21:45:28 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I just found https://bugs.debian.org/838777, which says packages that only
> provide a window manager without a mechanism for launching programs should
> not register as x-window-manager
See also https://bugs.debian.org/1004522 in which
Russ Allbery writes:
> I considered whether instead of starting with a priority of 40, we
> should instead bump the priority if the window manager supports the
> desktop specification, but I think this is a place where the structure
> of X environments has changed over the years. It used to be
control: tag -1 + pending
Hello,
On Sun 18 Sep 2022 at 07:53PM -07, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Ansgar writes:
>
>> 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
Processing control commands:
> tag -1 + pending
Bug #975631 [debian-policy] debian-policy: window manager: remove reference to
Debian menu
Added tag(s) pending.
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Ansgar writes:
> 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.
> --- a/policy/ch-customized-programs.rst
> +++
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
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