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+Whereas:
+
+ 1. The Debian Policy Manual states (§9.6) that 'The Debian menu
+ package provides a standard interface between packages providing
+ applications and "menu programs"'. It further states that 'All
+ packages that provide applications that need not be passed any
+ special command line arguments for normal operations should
+ register a menu entry for those applications'.
+
+ 2. All details about menu system requirement are delegated to the
+ Debian Menu sub-policy and Debian Menu System manuals (the
+ "Debian menu system").
+
+ 3. An external specification, the Freedesktop Desktop Entry
+ Specification (the ".desktop spec"), with native support in many
+ X desktop environments, has appeared since the Debian Menu
+ system was developed. The .desktop spec offers a fairly strict
+ super-set of Debian Menu system functionality.
+
+ 4. The .desktop specification has significant technical benefits
+ for users over the Debian menu system. The .desktop
+ specification works together with the freedesktop.org mime type
+ and icon specifications to provide operations expected by
+ desktop users from other environments, such as Mac OS X or
+ Windows. As such, applications must provide a .desktop file to
+ operate well in most desktop environments.
+
+ 5. 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.
+
+ Therefore:
+
+
+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 D:
+
+ The Technical Committee has reviewed the underlying technical
+ issues around this question and has resolved that Debian will be
+ best served by migrating away from our own Debian Menu System and
+ towards the common Freedesktop Desktop Entry Specification, and
+ that menu information for applications should not be duplicated in
+ two different formats.
+
+ To encourage this change, we make menu files optional, ask that
+ packages include .desktop files as appropriate and prohibit
+ packages from providing both menu and .desktop files for the same
+ application.
+
+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 adopts the changes proposed by Charles
+ Plessy in ba679bff[1].
+
+ 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
+ contents for constructing a list of applications to present to
+ the user.
+
+ 4. We advise the maintainers of the 'menu' package to update that
+ package to reflect this increased focus on .desktop files by
+ modifying the 'menu' package to use .desktop files for the
+ source of menu information in addition to menu files.
+
+ 5. Discussion of the precise relationship between menu file
+ section/hints values and .desktop file Categories values may be
+ defined within the Debian Menu sub-policy and Debian Menu
+ System.
+
+ 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
+
+OPTION Z:
+
+Further discussion
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