Followup-For: Bug #462648
Package: menu
Version: 2.1.37
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More ways update-menus doesn't work:
Update-menus no longer understands custom (any?) menufiles.
To reproduce:
Make a custom menu file (such as the lyx menufile from the
/usr/share/menu directory):
?package(lyx):
needs="X11" section="Applications/Office" \
title="LyX Document Processor" command="lyx" \
icon="/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/lyx.xpm"\
hints="Word processors"
After making the file executable (chmod 755) so it produces output, and
then running "update-menus" results in the following output:
/home/nick/.menu/lyx: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `lyx'
/home/nick/.menu/lyx: line 1: `?package(lyx):'
Execution of /home/nick/.menu/lyx generated no output or returned an
error.
update-menus results in the same syntax error for all menufiles with
that syntax... Has the syntax of update-menus changed without being
documented?
Due to the fact that it fails with a syntax error for every menufile
presented, it is thus impossible to add any custom menu entries to the
standard Debian menu.
While this could be a separate bug, I have a feeling that it's related
to the bug I'm currently filing it under, and that it's simply another
expression of the same underlying problem.
If any further information is needed (I could be a bit too out of it to
have included all necessary information), feel free to ask. All
menufiles in ~/.menu are of UTF-8 encoding, if that makes any
difference (en-US locale).
Even making any of the menufiles in /usr/share/menu executable results
in that file suffering from the same syntax error, "unexpected token
near" the package name... I don't understand how the Debian menu on my
system is created at this point... I only stumbled upon this problem because I
recently switched from Gnome to fluxbox, and then openbox when I found that the
fluxbox menu didn't work. Running update-menus in openbox makes the menu
appear perfectly fine.
Thanks so much,
Nick Daly
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages menu depends on:
ii libc6 2.7-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3-20080116-1 GCC support library
ii libstdc++6 4.3-20080116-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
menu recommends no packages.
-- no debconf information
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