[Reportbug-maint] Bug#654306: reportbug: Can't launch browser for more details

[Stéphane Aulery]

Le samedi 14 janvier 2012 à 10:39:01, Sandro Tosi a écrit :
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 01:35, Stéphane Aulery <lkppo at free.fr> wrote:
> > Le vendredi 13 janvier 2012 à 05:42:21, Sandro Tosi a écrit :
> >> On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 02:10, Stéphane Aulery <lkppo at free.fr> wrote:
> >> > Le lundi 09 janvier 2012 à 01:13:01, Sandro Tosi a écrit :
> >> >
> >> >> - do you have xdg-utils installed? reportbug uses xdg-open to launch urls
> >> >
> >> > Yes, xdg-utils 1.1.0~rc1+ 1.1.0~rc1+ (from testing)
> >>
> >> does
> >>
> >> $ xdg-open 'http://www.debian.org'
> >>
> >> works from the same env where reportbug doesn't?
> >
> > No.
> 
> Ok, so that's the problem: reportbug uses xdg-open (if installed) to
> open any URL, which is the preferred way to be platform/DE/whatever
> independent; but in your case xdg-open fails to open a URL, that might
> be a bug in xdg-open (it *seems* to be able to use these browsers:
> links2 elinks links lynx w3m) or a missing textual browser. In any of
> these cases it's not a bug in reportbug, so if it's in xdg-open we
> should reassign this bug to xdg-open else we should close it.

The problem is that xdg-utlis description say : "xdg-utils contains utilities
for integrating applications with the desktop environment, regardless of which
desktop environment is use".

Does xdg-utils have a console equivalent like urlview ? (See
/etc/urlview/url_handler.sh)

If no, I propose to reassign this bug to xdg-utils.

Regards,

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Stéphane Aulery