Re: menu-policy update process

2003-05-28 Thread Chris Waters
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 12:17:22PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Chris Waters wrote: > > The whole point of keeping menu policy separate was so that it would > > be easy to modify without all the overhead of making formal policy > > changes. I'm a little perturbed that we seem to have lost that. > We

Bug#194974: [PROPOSAL] add Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy

2003-05-28 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 10:41:16AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > 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, reali

Bug#194974: [PROPOSAL] add Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy

2003-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
Bill Allombert wrote: > There is a Games/Sports section defined as "games derived from "real > world" sports". I think csmash and gtkpool fit this criterium. I suppose. Then do we have enough simulations to warrant an Games/Simulation? The simulatian-ish things I find with a quick search are: -

menu-policy update process (Re: Bug#194974: [PROPOSAL] add Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy)

2003-05-28 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Waters wrote: > The whole point of keeping menu policy separate was so that it would > be easy to modify without all the overhead of making formal policy > changes. I'm a little perturbed that we seem to have lost that. Well, it's not clear from reading the various files in /usr/share/doc/d

Bug#194974: [PROPOSAL] add Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy

2003-05-28 Thread Chris Waters
On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 08:55:58PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > I noticed that the majority of packages that create a new second-level > menu (in violation of policy) are in Games/Simulation. The whole point of keeping menu policy separate was so that it would be easy to modify without all the overh

Bug#194972: [PROPOSAL] add Apps/Educational to menu subpolicy

2003-05-28 Thread Chris Waters
Joey Hess (2003-05-27 20:43:08 -0400) : > --- menu-policy.sgml.old 2003-05-27 20:40:31.0 -0400 > +++ menu-policy.sgml 2003-05-27 20:41:17.0 -0400 > @@ -125,6 +125,10 @@ > > text editors, word processors > > + E

Bug#194972: [PROPOSAL] add Apps/Educational to menu subpolicy

2003-05-28 Thread Roland Mas
Joey Hess (2003-05-27 20:43:08 -0400) : > --- menu-policy.sgml.old 2003-05-27 20:40:31.0 -0400 > +++ menu-policy.sgml 2003-05-27 20:41:17.0 -0400 > @@ -125,6 +125,10 @@ > > text editors, word processors > > + E

Bug#194974: [PROPOSAL] add Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy

2003-05-28 Thread Roland Mas
Joey Hess (2003-05-27 20:55:58 -0400) : > --- menu-policy.sgml.old 2003-05-27 20:40:31.0 -0400 > +++ menu-policy.sgml 2003-05-27 20:54:41.0 -0400 > @@ -208,6 +208,10 @@ > > tests of ingenuity and logic > > + Si

Bug#194974: [PROPOSAL] add Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy

2003-05-28 Thread Bill Allombert
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-i

changelog encoding... what's up?

2003-05-28 Thread Jürgen A . Erhard
Since I ran into this problem (unspec'd encoding of Debian Changelog), I googled and search d.o, and found some proposals. But none of those was reflected in /u/d/debian-policy. Not even 174982, even though it was ACCEPTED in January by Colin (I just checked, and count 5 or 6 seconds), it's not i