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. -- Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>
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