Bug#172436: Updated BROWSER proposal

2019-07-22 Thread Simon McVittie
On Sun, 21 Jul 2019 at 21:08:15 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > I think it's clear that we're not making forward progress here, and the > lack of a clear specification for the BROWSER environment variable doesn't > seem to be causing a lot of noticable ongoing pain. I'm therefore going > to close thi

Bug#172436: Updated BROWSER proposal

2008-06-04 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Russ Allbery wrote: "Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: "web browser to display an URL." I don't like the sentence, but anyway I don't worry much, because the program should be sensible, and open browser only with correct protocols. I've changed it to: Some

Bug#172436: Updated BROWSER proposal

2008-06-03 Thread Russ Allbery
"Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > "web browser to display an URL." > I don't like the sentence, but anyway I don't worry much, > because the program should be sensible, and open browser > only with correct protocols. I've changed it to: Some programs have th

Bug#172436: Updated BROWSER proposal

2008-06-03 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Russ Allbery wrote: --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -8675,6 +8675,68 @@ name ["syshostname"]: for games (X and non-X games) should be installed in /usr/share/man/man6. + + + Web browsers + + + Some programs have the ability to launch a

Bug#172436: Updated BROWSER proposal

2008-06-02 Thread Russ Allbery
Here is an updated proposal for wording around BROWSER, the www-browser and x-www-browser alternatives, and sensible-browser. Following the discussion of the previous proposal, this downgrades supporting BROWSER to a recommendation and downgrades registering the alternatives to should from must.