Le Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:38:33PM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > Carlo Segre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > The consensus on the debian-science list is no. Education is simply not > > the right category. We have made several efforts to have this changed > > in the free desktop specification to no avail. Some of us simply use an > > sensible category and let the lintian errors pile up until they come to > > their senses. > > lintian is a tool for Debian maintainers, not for Free Desktop validation, > so as far as I'm concerned if debian-science has reached a consensus on > categories, lintian should recognize those categories. It's not like it's > strictly checking against Free Desktop specifications right now anyway > (since tons and tons of .desktop files use Applications, which also isn't > valid). > > If you can tell me the list of categories on which you've agreed, I'll add > them to lintian.
Dear all, There is an ongoing discussion in this subject, but it stalled a few weeks ago. A tentative summary is on the wiki: http://wiki.debian.org/ExtraMenus For the moment, in the Debian-Med packaging team, we use `Categories=Biology;Science;Education;'. Some window managers will automagically create a Science section (Xfce4 apparently), and some more strict will use Education (GNOME). While I have nothing against removing the `Education' category from the list, I am affraid that if there is no concerted changes in other packages (which I did not determine yet), it could result that the entry would appear in the `Other' category, which is not what we want. Have a nice day, PS: there is a tool for checking .desktop files, `desktop-file-validate'. -- Charles Plessy http://charles.plessy.org Wakō, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
