On 18/02/2022 11:38, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
Let me rephrase this: Debian introduced the erratic behaviour just recently:
xdg-utils (1.1.3-3) unstable; urgency=medium
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[ Nicholas Guriev ]
* Link to /usr/bin/open through alternatives mechanism. LP: #342584.
What justifies this breakage? Just out of pure fun?
What's broken about that? That `man open` doesn't open open.2 ? Are you
seriously calling that breakage?
And fwiw it was discussed in debian-devel a while ago and coordinated with other
package maintainers.
Cheers,
Emilio
