Bug#707851: Proposed changes on menu systems

2014-02-02 Thread Markus Koschany
Hello Charles, On 02.02.2014 14:00, Charles Plessy wrote: [...] > I think that the absence of a feature in the Debian Policy is not a good > justification for refusing a patch that is not invasive and does not require > further attention. > > We should assume people's good faith on both sides. B

Bug#707851: Proposed changes on menu systems

2014-02-02 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 02:36:35PM +0100, Markus Koschany a écrit : > Charles Plessy wrote: > [...] > > I have read a lot of scepticism about the Debian menu in this thread, and no > > actual support for it. Perhaps I was trying to be too consensual and > > proposed > > an over-complicated soluti

Re: package contents prefix issue

2014-02-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Jacek Krysztofik writes: > Out of dozens of sophisms I had to counter only one stood out as almost > reasonable, that I cannot guarantee some package won't suddenly release > files in name conflict with ours. My counterargument was that it cannot > occur in stable release, and if anything, we sho