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

[Sandro Tosi]

reassign 654306 xdg-utils
retitle 654306 xdg-open: can't detect browser in console
thanks

On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 12:37, Stéphane Aulery <lkppo at free.fr> wrote:
> 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".

but it should work in console too.

> 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.

done.

Regards,
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