Re: ruby-launchy
On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 11:22 PM, Cédric Boutillier <boutil@debian.org> 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. 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.
>
>
> There has been a discussion on ruby-launchy in March 2014, which lead to
> the same conclusion as above:
>
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-ruby/2014/03/msg00032.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> Cédric
Please patch ruby-letter-opener to use xdg-open then. Even ruby-letter-opener
only use it to launch a web browser.
I think we should remove ruby-launchy from the team repo. Possibly
creating a wiki
page with "Software that will not be packaged."
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Per
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