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"))

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 18/02/2022 11:38, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:
> Let me rephrase this: Debian introduced the erratic behaviour just recently:
> xdg-utils (1.1.3-3) unstable; urgency=medium
> 
> [...]
> 
>    [ Nicholas Guriev ]
> 
>    * Link to /usr/bin/open through alternatives mechanism. LP: #342584.
> 
> What justifies this breakage? Just out of pure fun?

What's broken about that? That `man open` doesn't open open.2 ? Are you 
seriously calling that breakage?

And fwiw it was discussed in debian-devel a while ago and coordinated with other 
package maintainers.

Cheers,
Emilio