3 1. The Debian Technical Committee has been asked to resolve a
4 dispute between maintainers of Debian Policy over a change that
6 i. incorporates the description of the FreeDesktop menu system
7 and its use in Debian for listing program in desktop menus
8 and associating them with media types
10 ii. softens the wording on the Debian Menu system to reflect that
11 in Jessie it will be neither displayed nor installed by
12 default on standard Debian installations.
14 Using its power under §6.1.1 to decide matters of technical policy:
18 1. The Technical Committee adopts the changes proposed by Charles
19 Plessy in ba679bff[1].
21 [1]: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dbnpolicy/policy.git/commit/?id=ba679bff76f5b9152f43d5bc901b9b3aad257479
23 Using its power under §6.1.5 to offer advice:
25 1. The Technical Committee suggests that the maintainers of the
26 Debian menu package support translating .desktop files of
27 packages which do not provide menu files.
31 1. Considers that the policy procedure resulted in consensus, and
32 adopts the changes proposed by Charles Plessy in ba67bff.[1]
34 [1]: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dbnpolicy/policy.git/commit/?id=ba679bff76f5b9152f43d5bc901b9b3aad257479
38 1. The Technical Committee adopts the changes proposed by Bill
41 [1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;filename=patch2;bug=707851;msg=446