[Pkg-octave-devel] Getting rid of the menu file

[Thomas Weber]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 12:12:25PM +0100, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Le dimanche 27 décembre 2015 à 11:14 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere a écrit :
> > In order to comply with the Technical Committee decision regarding 
> > Bug#741573 [1], I removed the file debian/octave.menu from the octave 
> > package [commit 0170cd8].
> > 
> > In the process of doing it, I noticed that we are still shipping a .menu 
> > file within the octave-htmldoc package.  This file is not concerned by 
> > the tech-ctte decision above, but I am wondering about its usefulness, 
> > because there are no applications shipped in the octave-htmldoc package.
> > 
> > Besides that, I simply do not understand its command= lines:
> > 
> >     $ grep command= debian/octave-htmldoc.menu
> >         command="/usr/share/doc/octave-htmldoc/interpreter/index.html"
> >         command="/usr/share/doc/octave-htmldoc/liboctave/index.html"
> > 
> > According section 3.6 of the Debian Menu System documentation [2], the 
> > content of the command field should be an executable file, which is 
> > clearly not the case above.  Since there are already 
> > octave-htmldoc.doc-base.* files, I think that we can remove 
> > octave-htmldoc.doc-base.
> > 
> > What do you think? 
> 
> The files were added by Thomas in commit 0f694231, so maybe he could
> enlighten us on their purpose?

That was 4 years ago. Sorry, I don't remember the reasons why the file
looks like this.

	Thomas