Hi Gregor,

Bill Allombert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 01:42:51PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
>> P.S. I've recently filed a bug against jabref, demanding that it be
>> moved from Apps/Tools to Data managment.  This has been fixed, but at
>> the same time a lintian override has been added:  
>> 
>> jabref binary: menu-item-creates-new-section
>> 
>> but I have not found a bug in lintian requesting to allow new sections.
>> Are these new names still experimental?
>
> More precisely: they are not official. The plan is to keep the old
> section for Etch and switch to the new ones as soon as Etch is released
> to have enough time to make the transition.
>
> Etch packages should keep the old hierarchy. 
> Sorry for the delay but we did not get much support.

So sorry for my side for this ill-prepared bug report.  But still, Tools
wasn't the right place, and "Databases" is intended for interactive
data management tools even in the old structure:

,----
| 2.1. Preferred menu structure
| -----------------------------
| 
|      Here is the authoritative list of Debian's menu structure.  Please do
|      not put your packages into any other sections without asking for
|      permission first!
| 
|      Apps
|           normal applications
| 
|           Databases
|                interactive database programs
| 
`----

Regards, Frank

-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

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