Bug#199357: tetex-bin: texdoc tries to launch netscape

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 03.07.03 Jean-Nicolas Kuttler (nkuttler@gmx.net) wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 11:09:12PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:

Hi,

> > How do you/we think about the solution in #122783? In this case
> > we need a depend on mime-support.
> 
> I'm not a debian developer, so I'm not sure if adding more
> dependencies is so good.
> 
Neither do I and I agree with you, that adding more dependencies is
not desirable. BTW: the package mime-support is not that huge.

> According to Appendix F of the Debian Policy maybe it would be
> better if the different viewer-packages provide an alternative
> (*-viewer or something) that texdoc could use? However, that would
> concern some 10 or 20 packages...
> 
Hmmm. That makes to me more sense when e.g. selecting different
incarnations of vi, not when to select the viewer of a special
mime-type. Appendix F does not belong to the policy, meanwhile
Chapter 10 says, that mime-types should be used.
Any opinions out there in debian-tetex-maint? Do exist there a
consense, which method to use?

H. 
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