Whereas:
       
   1. The Debian Technical Committee has been asked to resolve a
      dispute between maintainers of Debian Policy over a change that

      i. incorporates the description of the FreeDesktop menu system
         and its use in Debian for listing program in desktop menus
         and associating them with media types

     ii. softens the wording on the Debian Menu system to reflect that
         in Jessie it will be neither displayed nor installed by
         default on standard Debian installations.

 Using its power under §6.1.1 to decide matters of technical policy:

OPTION A:

   1. The Technical Committee adopts the changes proposed by Charles
      Plessy in ba679bff[1].

   2. 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

Using its power under §6.1.5 to offer advice:

   1. The Technical Committee suggests that the maintainers of the
      Debian menu package support translating .desktop files of
      packages which do not provide menu files.


OPTION B:
   1. Considers that the policy procedure resulted in consensus, and
      adopts the changes proposed by Charles Plessy in ba67bff.[1]

   2. 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

Using its power under §6.1.5 to offer advice:

   1. The Technical Committee suggests that the maintainers of the
      Debian menu package support translating .desktop files of
      packages which do not provide menu files.

OPTION C:

  1. The Technical Committee adopts the changes proposed by Bill
     Allombert.[1]

  2. Further modifications to the menu policy are allowed using the
     normal policy modification process.

[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;filename=patch2;bug=707851;msg=446

OPTION Z:

Further discussion