Bug#1005907: Info received (Bug#1005907: closed by Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu at debian.org> (Re: Bug#1005907: xdg-utils: "man open" gives the manpage of "xdg-open"))

[Dr. Nikolaus Klepp]

Let me rephrase this: Debian introduced the erratic behaviour just recently:
xdg-utils (1.1.3-3) unstable; urgency=medium

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  [ Nicholas Guriev ]

  * Link to /usr/bin/open through alternatives mechanism. LP: #342584.

What justifies this breakage? Just out of pure fun?

Nik