On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 11:22 PM, Cédric Boutillier <bou...@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 <abhij...@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." -- Per
