xdg-open for 2.4.0?

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 11:54:29AM +0100, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 10:31:45PM +0000, José Matos wrote:
> > > It seems there are two questions:
> > > 
> > > (1) Are we still concerned about a security issue?
> > > (2) Regardless of a security issue, is xdg-open what we want?
> 
> I pushed against xdg-open long time ago when debian maintainers offered it.
> The issue was not security, but the fact that the fallback handlers did not
> work well outside the debian framework (essentially firefox started to be
> launched as a default pdf viewer on my system).
> 
> I migrated to debian years back, so I have no clue how it fares nowadays
> elsewhere...

Good to know. Do I understand correctly then that you would not oppose
having it on the end of the options in the configure lists?

Scott
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