[pkg-fgfs-crew] Name of FlightGear's desktop file

Florent Rougon f.rougon at free.fr
Sun May 7 13:05:02 UTC 2017


"Rebecca N. Palmer" <rebecca_palmer at zoho.com> wrote:

> (Speaking only for myself here - Markus is the official Debian maintainer)

Noted. :)

> Debian's .desktop files policy is to follow that spec
> (https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-menus), so yes.
>
> This can't be done right now in Debian because of the release freeze, but that
> doesn't stop it being done upstream.

Right, I was asking from the upstream perspective, sorry if this was
unclear.

> There's also a fourth in the Debian packaging, which we currently use
> (https://anonscm.debian.org/git/collab-maint/flightgear.git/tree/debian/flightgear.desktop).

Ah!

> It would probably be a good idea to merge them all into one, but I haven't
> actually looked at the others.

Well, I can try to merge the best of them into
package/flightgear.desktop (which will be renamed), but I don't know if
people will be happy if I also remove (for non-redundancy) the other
ones we have upstream, in the RedHat and openSUSE subdirs of
flightgear/package...

Thanks for your answer.

Regards

-- 
Florent



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