Bug 34783

Summary: menu-spec Categories: Request for Astrology
Product: Specifications Reporter: Paul Elliott <pelliott>
Component: desktop-entryAssignee: Vincent Untz <vuntz>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
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Description Paul Elliott 2011-02-26 14:55:40 UTC 
I am packaging some astrology programs as free software. There is a difficulty concerning the proper category. The government of India classifies astrology as Science, however there are many mainstream scientists that would be outraged as such a classification. To classify astrology as games or amusements disparages astrology; There are people in the world that use astrology to control their investments; it is not my role as a software packager to criticize their beliefs.

The proper classification of astrology should be decided by civil society, if the issue should be settled at all. It should not be the role of software packagers to resolve such issues.

A main level Category for astrology bypasses all such questions, and allows the end user to make up his or her own mind. Free Software should be about freedom. Thus a main Category for astrology seems warranted.

There seem to be about as many or more people using their computers for astrology as ham radio, so this request is not without precedent.

I request a main category for Astrology.

P.S. Astrology programs are being packaged, without such a category, some less  satisfactory classification will be used such as graphics 2d.
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2011-02-27 04:32:33 UTC 
I'm going to close this as duplicate of bug 20192, because I think we could have one solution that fixes both issues.

FWIW, I don't think it's reasonable to add a Astrology category because there are not enough apps for this, really. (And the fact that we have a category for ham radio doesn't mean we should add more categories that won't be that much used, really :-))

As I said already on opensuse-packaging, at the moment, the less wrong solution is probably to use "Education;Science;". It's wrong, but it's probably what works best for your use case.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 20192 ***
Comment 2 Paul Elliott 2011-02-27 19:10:50 UTC 
In this case Bug 20192
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20192
should be modified to create Philosophy/Astrology

There are an huge number of windows astrology programs out there but most of them have not been ported or packaged for linux. There should be a Category for them.

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