xdg-open for 2.4.0?

[Pavel Sanda]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2022 at 01:50:27PM -0500, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> 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?

Well, no, but I guess that xdg people would say that it makes sense only
in case you put it first. In any case I can't check outside debian sphere
now so I will refrain from interfering in either direction.

Pavel