From 7191899650c636bb08b92e86e6524f9c9173086b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Don Armstrong Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 19:46:20 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] add dla draft of menu system discussion --- 741573_menu_systems/dla_draft.txt | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 45 insertions(+) create mode 100644 741573_menu_systems/dla_draft.txt diff --git a/741573_menu_systems/dla_draft.txt b/741573_menu_systems/dla_draft.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fa24409 --- /dev/null +++ b/741573_menu_systems/dla_draft.txt @@ -0,0 +1,45 @@ +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]. + +[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] + +[1]: http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dbnpolicy/policy.git/commit/?id=ba679bff76f5b9152f43d5bc901b9b3aad257479 + +OPTION C: + + 1. The Technical Committee adopts the changes proposed by Bill + Allombert.[1] + +[1]: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?att=1;filename=patch2;bug=707851;msg=446 + +OPTION Z: + +Further discussion -- 2.39.5