Note that this request is not about lintian warnings, but menu layout and behaviour. Of the packages we install in Debian Edu workstation by default, kicad is the only one in squeeze pulling in the extra-xdg-menus package.
Pulling in the extra-xdg-menus leads to two extra toplevel menu entries in KDE, which make the list of top level menu very long and and more confusing for users. Because of this, we do not want the extra-xdg-menus package installed in the default installation, which is hard to implement when it is recommended by a package when using the provided debian-installer/tasksel implementation in Debian, and impossible to do when it is depended by a package. Removing the extra-xdg-menus package make the kicad package show up in lost+found, because its desktop file do not list any of the categories that are registered in the official XDG menu specification. This is a bug in the desktop file and should be fixed. One alternative for Debian Edu with packages that make the menu more confusing or show up in lost+found is to drop the package from the list of default packages we install. Another is to complete rewrite the menu structure and content to match what we want ignoring all .desktop files. I hope we can avoid any of these alternatives in the future, if all packages .desktop files provide good settings for Debian Edu. :) Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
