From: Keith Packard Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 20:37:13 +0000 (-0700) Subject: 741573: Clarify option D as Plessy+ X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=90da0e87dabd8b0ec3bc3e273c30084aaae79e61;p=debian-ctte.git 741573: Clarify option D as Plessy+ This explicitly makes option D an extension of the existing proposal from Charles Plessy, and not a completely different proposal. Signed-off-by: Keith Packard --- diff --git a/741573_menu_systems/odyx_draft.txt b/741573_menu_systems/odyx_draft.txt index 4badca1..d980605 100644 --- a/741573_menu_systems/odyx_draft.txt +++ b/741573_menu_systems/odyx_draft.txt @@ -101,14 +101,12 @@ OPTION D: 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 @@ -125,12 +123,7 @@ policy, and its power under §6.1.5 to offer advice: 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