Bug#172436: Is it OK for the new policy wording to be a SHOULD?
Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
> 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)
Joey had reported at the time that most programs in Debian had moved to
using sensible-browser or honoring BROWSER, but that was some time ago and
the archive has moved on since then. I'm not sure (outside of the
desktop environments, which have their own way of handling this) how many
of the random programs in Debian use BROWSER (or even a good way of
checking).
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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