Re: Bug#707851: Soften the the wording recommending menu files: let's do it in Jessie.

2014-01-09 Thread Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer
On Wednesday 08 January 2014 11:31:07 Charles Plessy wrote: [snip] > Hi Lisandro, > > thanks for your answer. Input from all the parties is critical. > > in my point of view, the Policy has been used to bully the maintainers of > FreeDesktop-compliant applications and desktop environments, and

Bug#707851: Soften the the wording recommending menu files: let's do it in Jessie.

2014-01-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Hi, Charles Plessy wrote: > please, I would like to decouple two issues. > > - Issue 1: the Debian menu is superseded in major destkotop environments, and >the Policy should recognise that the Debian menu is not the lead mechanism >for managing menus in Debian anymore. Unfortutately we

Bug#707851: Soften the the wording recommending menu files: let's do it in Jessie.

2014-01-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 01:15:16PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : > > Alas, now that completeness is eroding and I don't see much reason to > recommend in policy to continue to add entries, unless we have clear > advice about when packagers should include an entry in it and when > they should ad

Re: Bug#707851: Soften the the wording recommending menu files: let's do it in Jessie.

2014-01-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 01:15:16PM -0800, Jonathan Nieder a écrit : > > Alas, now that completeness is eroding and I don't see much reason to > recommend in policy to continue to add entries, unless we have clear > advice about when packagers should include an entry in it and when > they should ad

Bug#707851: Soften the the wording recommending menu files: let's do it in Jessie.

2014-01-09 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Charles Plessy wrote: > On the other hand, it is the spirit of Debian to accept low-maintenance > patches > (in that case, menu entries) when it can help other projects even if one does > not care for it. In that sense, if the Debian Menu has an active user base, > it > would be counter-product