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]

So you agree this happened out of pure fun and the lust to break things. Well, ok, that's surely a worthwile and well justified argument. Thank you.

nik

Anno domini 2022 Fri, 18 Feb 12:17:47 +0100
 Emilio Pozuelo Monfort scripsit:
> 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
>



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