Re: ruby-launchy
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 11:22:23PM +0200, Cédric Boutillier wrote:
>> On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 01:50:12PM +0200, Per Andersson wrote:
>> > On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 6:22 AM, Abhijith PA <abhijith@openmailbox.org> wrote:
>> > > Hi
>> > >
>> > > Ruby-launchy is a dependency for ruby-letter-opener. Seems like it has a
>> > > repo in pkg-ruby-extras , but not uploaded to the archive.Mailed the
>> > > maintainer, and no reply yet.It will be nice if some DD from here can
>> > > take care of this.?
>> >
>> > Are there lots of depends on ruby-launchy? Otherwise it might be easier
>> > to just use xdg-open, since most packages, from what I've seen, only use
>> > it to launch something in a web browser. (I saw in the ITP that Jekyll
>> > depends on it.)
>>
>> I think that only one or two packages in the archive so far depend
>> (upstream) on ruby-launchy, and they have been patched to use xdg-open.
>> It is currently used only to open a browser in a platform independent
>> manner.
>
> At the moment that is *everything* that launchy supports, i.e. its _only
> feature_ is opening a browser. ;-)
>
>> Since we control pretty much the environment of systems where
>> our packages are installed, I don't think it is much necessary, and
>> would prefer the use of more standard tools, like xdg-open.
>
> OTOH we have to patch N packages that rely on launchy. I'm not sure
> where to draw the line, i.e. which value of N is too large that it would
> be easier to just bite the bullet and actually have launchy in Debian.
Maybe this is a topic for the meeting? :-)
Maybe if N >= 2 it makes sense to just upload and forget (err, I mean
do other things than discuss if/when to upload super small packages).
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Per
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