After installing applications on Ubuntu Dapper Beta un-affected Debian menu entries disappear

[dr. gonzo]

Binary package hint: gnome-menus

This is Ubuntu Dapper Beta.

Debian menu is installed. Alacarte was used to edit the menu a number of
times.

After installing application with Synaptic, many entries (whole
categories) from the Debian menu disappear.
It seems that the entries that are on top are gone most often (i.e.
"Databases" is most often gone, while "Viewers" which is much lower is
left intact most often). This happens even if un-related programs are
installed, in other words even if programs that do not necessarily have
a menu entry in a particular menu category will make that category
disappear sometimes.

The way to fix the problem is to run "update-menus" script after each
time that Synaptic is run.

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Install some applications with Synaptic
2. Check the "Debian" menu structure

Actual Results:
Some parts of the "Debian" menu will disappear.
NOTE: There isn't any consistency as to how many categories from the
menu disappear.

Expected Results:
Applications that do not have any entries in the particular menu
categories shouldn't affect the menu structure at all

How often does this happen?
Everytime, but the number of affected menu entries that are gone, varies
greatly, sometimes the whole subcategories are gone, sometimes just a
few menu entries.

Additional Information:
Perhaps that there an update script that re-generates the menus but
which is not allowed to run to completion. So if the menu is being
re-generated but the script is killed only a part of the menu is
processed and appears in the menu structure.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The debian menu is built from menu-xdg, reassigning. Maybe you need to run update-menus to update it?

[dr. gonzo (drgonzo59)]

In the submission I wrote that running update-menus fixes the problem, but then during another install, the problem comes back. Bug is that I shouldn't have to run update-menus form the console every time I install applications. And menu entries of the applications I do not remove should not just disappear.

All in all it is not a showstopper bug, just annoying. Besides, most people probably won't have the Debian menu installed.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

lowering severity due to extant workaround

[rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for reporting this bug.

Is this an issue in Lucid?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for menu-xdg (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]