I think this is a backwards step to take.. KiCAD is NOT an "Education" or a "Science" program, it is not even a "Development" program.
It is "Engineering", "Electronics", full-stop. The fact that the XDG spec is inadequate does not mean programs should be mis-categorised. extra-xdg-menus resolves the issue in a clean way - and you should not be seeing the HamRadio menu if you don't have any "HamRadio" apps installed. The extra-xdg-menus package should be at the "Recommends" level, as with all similar packages pkg-electronics maintain. (gEDA, PCB, gerbv, ...) AN NMU on this is not appreciated, as you have not discussed with anyone why the package is categorised as it has been. I think you are making Debian worse by breaking KiCad's categorisation. Were you aware that extra-xdg-menus comes (at the request of various Debian developers), with some utilities to switch the extra menus on / off? Disable: exmendis --system hamradio exmendis --system electrincs etc.. Enable is similar, but with: exmenen ... Debian Edu perhaps need to come up with better .menu files to ship for their default install desktop. This is not our bug to fix, it is theirs. It should be possible to add category based catch-alls which dump "Electronics" programs into the "Education" category should you want to do something horrid like that. Regards, -- Peter Clifton (the guy who wrote extra-xdg-menus) Electrical Engineering Division, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, 9, JJ Thomson Avenue, Cambridge CB3 0FA Tel: +44 (0)7729 980173 - (No signal in the lab!) Tel: +44 (0)1223 748328 - (Shared lab phone, ask for me) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
