On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 11:51:25PM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > My problem is that after 8 years the first menu file that is > actually using it broke a script in cdd-common and I have no > idea how to fix this because there is no description of this > format. > > >I don't see how it is relevant to debian-policy or dh-make. > > You don't want to tell me that #447389 and #447390 make no > sense.
The menu entry format is not documented in the menu policy, so this discard #447389. Since menu-1 is not deprecated, #447390 is a wishlist. > >I have no feeling about using menu-2 for menu file, but I recommend > >it for menu-methods. > > But why? Because this make functions definitions in menu-methods much more readable. menu-2 is used in menu-methods for 8 years or so. menu entry files are much simpler. However some people do not like the fact that line break are significant. > >Thanks for explaining to this list all the trouble I had to > >get through before discovering menu-2. > > ?? > I don't understand this statement? You explained that the documentation of menu-2 was sub-par. This is exactly the reason I took five years before learning about menu-2. I inherited this feature from the original menu author (Joost). > >>>So how could you expect developers to adopt a new format if there > >>>is no information about it? > > > >By posting to debian-devel-announce. > > After 8 years and without drawing the consequences to file the > apropriate bug reports especially #447391? This sounds not very > convincing. Why should lintian flag menu-1 as an error ? menu-1 menu file are absolutly fine as far as I am concerned. > >Assuming your menu-1 file has a single entry, this is sufficient. > >(Else you obviously need one ';' for each entry). > > Well, to come to a productive suggestion: If menu-2 just adds > some syntax sugar that makes no real advantage - could we just > drop this new and unknown format? Would this have any bad > consequences (except of rewriting some menu methods)? If you want menu-2 dead, why asking dh_make to generate menu-2 file ? Why asking lintian to report menu-1 file as error ? Strange... Anyway, if you have some cdd scripts that are broken by menu-2, please send them to me and I am sure we will fix them in a short time. Actually you can even use update-menus to convert from menu-2 to menu-1. Cheers, Bill. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
