Bug#894357: firefox: no Debian Menu System entry

[Alex ARNAUD]

Hello boffi,

What is TWM? The bug you mentioned seems related to it. On Mate, Firefox 
is available in Application, Internet.

Best regards,
Alex.

Le 29/03/2018 à 14:34, boffi a écrit :
> Package: firefox
> Version: 59.0.2-1
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> * What led up to the situation?
> I clicked on the root menu of TWM and tried to find an entry to launch
> Firefox in "Debian/Applications/Network/Web Browsing"
> 
> * What was the outcome of this action?
> I couldn't see a menu entry to launch Firefox.
> 
> * What outcome did you expect instead?
> A menu entry to click and launch Firefox.
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> To quote from www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/menu.html
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Chapter 4 - What packages with applications should do
> 
> 4.1 Providing a menu file
> A package should provide a menu file /usr/share/menu/<package-name>
> that contains information about each program it likes to make available
> in the menus.
> 
> 4.2 Adding a hook for dpkg in your packages
> The postinst script and the postrm script of the package should include
> the line
> 
>        if test -x /usr/bin/update-menus; then update-menus; fi
> 
> If you are using debhelper, the program dh_installmenu can do it for you.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Thank you in advance
>                                                                        gb
> -- Package-specific info:
> 
> 
> -- Addons package information
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: buster/sid
>    APT prefers unstable
>    APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
> LSM: AppArmor: enabled
> 
> Versions of packages firefox depends on:
> ii  debianutils               4.8.4
> ii  fontconfig                2.12.6-0.1
> ii  libatk1.0-0               2.28.1-1
> ii  libc6                     2.27-2
> ii  libcairo-gobject2         1.15.10-2
> ii  libcairo2                 1.15.10-2
> ii  libdbus-1-3               1.12.6-2
> ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.110-2
> ii  libevent-2.1-6            2.1.8-stable-4
> ii  libffi6                   3.2.1-8
> ii  libfontconfig1            2.12.6-0.1
> ii  libfreetype6              2.8.1-2
> ii  libgcc1                   1:8-20180312-2
> ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.36.11-1
> ii  libglib2.0-0              2.54.3-2
> ii  libgtk-3-0                3.22.29-1
> ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.32-1
> ii  libhunspell-1.6-0         1.6.2-1
> ii  libjsoncpp1               1.7.4-3
> ii  libnspr4                  2:4.18-1
> ii  libnss3                   2:3.35-2
> ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.40.14-1
> ii  libsqlite3-0              3.22.0-1
> ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-5
> ii  libstdc++6                8-20180312-2
> ii  libvpx5                   1.7.0-3
> ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.4-3
> ii  libx11-xcb1               2:1.6.4-3
> ii  libxcb-shm0               1.13-1
> ii  libxcb1                   1.13-1
> ii  libxcomposite1            1:0.4.4-2
> ii  libxdamage1               1:1.1.4-3
> ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.3-1+b2
> ii  libxfixes3                1:5.0.3-1
> ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.10-1
> ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.5-1
> ii  procps                    2:3.3.12-4
> ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-5
> 
> firefox recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages firefox suggests:
> ii  fonts-lmodern          2.004.5-3
> ii  fonts-stix [otf-stix]  1.1.1-4
> ii  libcanberra0           0.30-6
> ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.16-2
> pn  mozplugger             <none>
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
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