I made a fresh install on a new laptop and I discovered that the Debian
menu is not present AT ALL in GNOME's menu.

This package is useless as long as this happens.

Yes GNOME menu doesn't visualize it.
Though modifying the main menu, you can see the Debian category, very strange.

This is due to a deliberate decision of the GNOME maintainers:

gnome-menus (2.18.3-2) unstable; urgency=low

  [ Josselin Mouette ]
  * Debian.directory: don't display the Debian menu by default. It can
    be enabled with the menu editor.

You have to use alacarte (or similar) and add it there in order to
appear.  Not a bug in the menu package, let alone of RC severity.

reassign 493961 gnome-menus
severity 493961 wishlist
retitle 493961 Should not hide the Debian menu
thanks

Quoting Yavor Doganov (yavor@yavor.doganov.org):


As a consequence, that bug should be reassigned to gnome-menus.

From the quoted changelog entry, it's very likely that, this decision
being a deliberate decision, the "bug" will not be fixed. I leave up
to Joss and gnome-menus maintainers to either tag the bug report or
close it. I'm retitling it accordingly. Please note that I have *no*
personal advice on the issue..:-)

forcemerge 443461 493961
thanks

It seems it is already reported (twice) and tagged "wontfix".

Maybe it's not a bug in the first place.  I suspect that the maintainers
believe the Debian menu is entirely redundant for the vast majority of
GNOME users.  Perhaps they're right.

Quoting Yavor Doganov (yavor@gnu.org):

Which I indeed partly agree with, for the record.

I think, but I may be wrong, that the Debian menu came before there
was a good standardization about .desktop files (which, if I'm
correct, are the way to create entries in most GUI environments).

If that's correct, maybe it should be time for both systems to
converge (I remember discussions....and disagreements...in -devel,
about this).