Bug#172436: Is it OK for the new policy wording to be a SHOULD?

[Don Armstrong <don@debian.org>]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> 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.

It's fine that gnome has it's own way; in the cases where gnome is
running, sensible-browser should still be called, as it obeys the
gnome configuration if BROWSER is not set.[1] This allows gnome to
obey BROWSER if set, and if not, use gnome-www-browser, which should
"do the right thing".

BROWSER should override the browser setting for everything, even when
there is a settable setting in gnome's UI.


Don Armstrong

1: At least, it calls gnome-www-browser, which I believe obeys the
gnome configuration.
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