Hi, On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 03:56:41AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > I was looking at the currently proposed wording for this issue, > and it says: > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > Thus, every program that launches a web browser with an URL should use > the BROWSER environment variable to determine what browser the user > wishes to use. <details of the content and handling of the BROWSER env > variable elided> > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > This would mean that every program that does not already follow > this directive would instantly turn buggy (conventionally, a violation > of a SHOULD directive is a normal bug) IMO that's fine. They're not RC bugs, just things which should be fixed. > The same rule has a MAY directive that provides an alternative: > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > + Instead of implementing the above in every program that runs a > + web browser, programs in Debian may be configured to use > + <file>/usr/bin/sensible-browser</file>. > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- I think it is a very good idea to always do what the user wants. A program which starts a browser that is not the one the user set as default gives a bad user experience. And it is a practical problem, too: there's more than one place to set up a "default" browser, currently, and that is confusing. So I think it is reasonable to claim that these packages are buggy already, even without it explicitly written in policy. > Has this been looked at already? How many packages will become > instantly buggy? If the number is small, this wording may be acceptable > as it stands. If the number of such packages is significant, a > transition plan might be called for. A transition in the form of reporting some bugs and fixing them seems fine to me. :-) Thanks, Bas -- I encourage people to send encrypted e-mail (see http://www.gnupg.org). If you have problems reading my e-mail, use a better reader. Please send the central message of e-mails as plain text in the message body, not as HTML and definitely not as MS Word. Please do not use the MS Word format for attachments either. For more information, see http://pcbcn10.phys.rug.nl/e-mail.html
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