On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 05:33:12PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > structures. Any transition plan which did that based on xdg files > would be quite horrible because it would involve mixing, in a single > file, data maintained by the trad Debian menu folks with data > maintained by the XDG folks. ITYM "data "maintained" in old debian/menu files with data maintained by the upstreams".
> The burden was simply of accepting patches to provide the Debian trad > menu file. These patches are tiny and no maintenance burden. "maintained" > Well there is of course a nuclear option. I don't have the effort for > this, but, the nuclear option for trad Debian menu supporters would be > to: > > * Package xdg-menu-convert but provide it with a mechanism that allows > a menu item to be placed differently in the xdg menu taxonomy to in > the trad taxonomy. Isn't at this time obvious that there is no trad Debian menu supporters willing or able to package xdg-menu-convert? > * Find example packages which currently provide xdg desktop files but > no trad menu file, and for which there was a rejected bug report > containing a trad menu file. (Best for packages which used to have > a trad menu file.) Yes, it would be an interesting study to find such bug reports. -- WBR, wRAR
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