On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 08:55:58PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Package: debian-policy
> Version: 3.5.10.0
> Severity: normal
> 
> I noticed that the majority of packages that create a new second-level
> menu (in violation of policy) are in Games/Simulation.
> http://lintian.debian.org/reports/Tmenu-item-creates-new-section.html
> has the list. Most of the programs there are simulations of the real
> world (though achilles and matrem are a-life programs, and xlife seems
> to have been thrown in some reason). There are slow simulations like atc
> from bsdgames, realistic real-time simulations like flightgear and
> csmash and gtkpool

There is a Games/Sports section defined as "games derived from "real
world" sports". I think csmash and gtkpool fit this criterium.

> I don't know where the three life programs currently in
> Games/Simulations should go under this new regime, probably somewhere in
> Apps as they're not really games at all. Apps/Science?

Life games are cellular automata which are studied in computer
sciences, why not Apps/Science.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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