[Bug 1213518] Re: xfce-applications.menu merges in a non-standard way. default overrides merge

[Len Ovens]

I don't have a debian install to test with. However, the test case that
I know is to install ubuntustudio-menu from ppa:len-ovenwerks/ppa (the
main one hasn't had this version released yet, but hopefully this week).
With out the patch, the five new submenus will be in alphabetical order
mixed with the other categories. With the patch, these five categories
will be at the top of the menu with a separator below them. There are
other artifacts the patch fixes as well, but that is the easiest one to
describe. It is safe to force ubuntustudio-menu to install without
depends, but the depend (ubuntustudio-installer) is quite small too. Not
installing ubuntustudio-installer just means there are some extra
applications that don't do anything and have no icon :)

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Title:
  xfce-applications.menu merges in a non-standard way. default overrides
  merge

Status in “garcon” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  the file /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu has the
  <DefaultMergeDirs/> at the beginning of the file where it is processed
  and the extra files are merged before the rest of the default file are
  read. This means that the default layouts etc. will override the
  merged file but the freedesktop standard is that the merged in files
  (in the user's direcory for example) should override the default file.
  This affects any package like alacarte that edits the menu, or a
  package that customizes the menu from /etc/xdg/menus/applications-
  merged/ directory. This can be corrected by moving the
  <DefaultMergeDirs/> line to the second last line just one line bfore
  the very last </Menu> line.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: libgarcon-common 0.2.0-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-25.17-lowlatency 3.8.13
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-25-lowlatency i686
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Aug 17 19:37:06 2013
  Dependencies:
   
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-21 (119 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release i386 (20130420)
  MarkForUpload: True
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: garcon
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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