Using its power under §6.1.1 to decide on any matter of technical
policy, and its power under §6.1.5 to offer advice:
- 1. The Technical Committee resolves that packages which provide
- applications customarily designed for use within a desktop
- environment should provide a .desktop file conforming to the
- Freedesktop Desktop Entry Specification.
+ 1. The Technical Committee adopts the changes proposed by Charles
+ Plessy in ba679bff[1].
- 2. Packages may provide menu files at the pleasure of the
- maintainer, but packages providing a .desktop file shall not
- also provide a menu file for the same application.
+ 2. In addition to those changes, the Technical Committee resolves
+ that packages providing a .desktop file shall not also provide a
+ menu file for the same application.
3. We further resolve that "menu programs" should not depend on the
Debian Menu System and should instead rely on .desktop file
defined within the Debian Menu sub-policy and Debian Menu
System.
- 6. The policy change by Charles Plessy in ba679bff76[1]
- would comply with this decision if it were revised to require
- that no package provide a menu file when it provides a .desktop
- file for the same application.
-
- 7. Further modifications to the menu policy are allowed using the
+ 6. Further modifications to the menu policy are allowed using the
normal policy modification process.
[1]: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dbnpolicy/policy.git/commit/?id=ba679bff76f5b9152f43d5bc901b9b3aad257479