Bug#806387: menu tests paradoxical

["Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>]

Control: severity -1 normal

On Thu, 2015-11-26 at 22:47 +0100, Jörg Frings-Fürst wrote:
> Package: lintian
> Version: 2.5.38.1
> Severity: serious

Definitely not.

> Hi,
> 
> Since the tech-ctte decision at bug #741573 is the command listed both in a
> menu file and a desktop file prohibited.
> 
> Therefor I get the warning "xsane: command-in-menu-file-and-desktop-file xsane
> usr/share/menu/xsane:6"
> 
> After remove the command from the menu file I get this error: "E: xsane: menu-
> item-missing-required-tag command usr/share/menu/xsane:6"

Well, yes. You're supposed to remove the whole stanza (and in many cases
the whole file), not just one little bit of it.

The referenced TC decision says:

   2. In addition to those changes, the Technical Committee resolves
      that packages providing a .desktop file shall not also provide a
      menu file for the same application.

I'm not clear how one gets from "shall not also provide a menu file for
the same application" to "can also provide a menu file for the same
application as long as there's no command= in it".

At worst the wording of the tag needs improving; the above description
doesn't indicate any kind of functionality bug in the checks, just a
misunderstanding of the intended action.

Regards,

Adam