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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:
+
+Using its power under §6.1.1 to decide on any matter of technical policy:
+
+   1. The Technical Committee resolves that packages for which the
+      Debian menu system currently applies should provide a .desktop
+      file. Applications providing a .desktop file should not
+      provide a Debian menu file.
+
+   2. 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.
+
+   3. We recommend that the maintainers of the 'menu' package 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.
+
+   4. 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.
+
+
+OPTION Z:
+
+Further discussion