Bug#172436: Is it OK for the new policy wording to be a SHOULD?
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Bas Wijnen wrote:
> > 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.
Bas, it seems you missed the discussion about the fact that Gnome has
its own way of defining the user's preferred browser. So no, it's not
clear that this is something that needs to be fixed at the Debian level.
See the last message of Russ on this topic for some alternative
proposition as some other parts of the patch here might still be useful.
In any case I would either change the should in may or simply explain that
applications should use the user's preferred browser either by reusing
the one configured in the graphical desktop or use sensible-browser so
that they respect the user's choice indicated in BROWSER.
> A transition in the form of reporting some bugs and fixing them seems
> fine to me. :-)
Not if it includes packages which do not respect BROWSER but that do
respect something similar in spirit coming from the graphical desktops.
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog
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