Update of xdg-utils?

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 07/02/2020 11:12, Ferdinand Lenhardt wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am addressing this to the maintainers of the xdg-utils package of the latest Debian distribution. Due to not having an overview of how all the stuff is managed, I am trying to ask by e-mail.
> 
> A user of Debian 10 LXDE from our local Linux club reported a problem to me, which he has with several GUI applications, when he tries to open a URL in the "About" window. I traced the problem down to the xdg-open script of the xdg-utils package. A corresponding bug report can be found here:
> 
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106585
> 
> The problem seems to be solved in xdg-utils 1.1.4, as stated here:
> 
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/blob/master/ChangeLog
> 
> However Debian still uses xdg-utils 1.1.3:
> 
> https://packages.debian.org/sid/xdg-utils
> 
> The download version is unfortunately also not latest one:
> 
> https://portland.freedesktop.org/download/
> 
> Since I don't know, which is the source for the xdg-utils package in Debian, I am addressing this issue to you, hoping that there will be an update of xdg-utils in Debian.
> 
> Any feedback from you could help me to improve my handling of such issue reports, so that I can address them more effectively.

The source is the tarball from that last link you posted. However there's no
tarball for 1.1.4 or 1.1.5. I have commented that in [1], let's see what
upstream says, and then I'll update the Debian package (whether via a new
release tarball or some patches or whatever).

Cheers,
Emilio