gimmie (ITA) and the new menu policy + building with pristine-tar

While working on Bug#460620: ITA: gimmie – elegant desktop organizer, I noticed that I need to upgrade debian/menu to the new policy.

Currently, gimmie uses Apps/Tools, but what should I use now? It does not fit into the other sections. Recommendations?

Other important changes:

• I am the new maintainer

• Gmenu and sexy extensions are not built, instead the python-gmenu and python-sexy packages are used

• Gimmie’s extensions are compiled for Python 2.4 and Python 2.5

• debian/copyright uses the format defined at http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat

• The suspend and hibernations buttons are back again (Commit)

The package is maintained in a git repo in the collab-maint project, and can be viewed online using Gitweb. You can get the source from its repo at git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/gimmie.git

To create the orig.tar.gz tarballs, you need to have pristine-tar installed. To build the package, install git-buildpackage (from unstable) and pristine-tar and simply run ‘git-buildpackage –git-pristine-tar’

The same instructions also apply to building readahead-list, which can be found at git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/readahead-list.git