LINTIAN

# `menu-item-creates-new-section`

The `menu` item has a line specifying an unknown section, or it uses a section intended only as a menu root item that applications should not use directly.

The section could be misspelled. Otherwise, please check the section against the list of valid names in the menu policy.

Severity: | `warning`
Experimental: | `false`

## See also

- Preferred menu structure (Section 2.1) in the The Debian Menu sub-policy

- list of all the affected packages
- the source of this tag