Bug#938994: Install links broken
Gunnar Hjalmarsson
gunnarhj at ubuntu.com
Fri Aug 30 23:19:28 BST 2019
Package: src:gnome-user-docs
Some pages have buttons for installing some package. They don't work on
Debian, but clicking them only results in an "Additional Packages
Required" message.
The links are of the type 'action="install:<pkg>"'. Ubuntu has replaced
those with 'href="apt:<pkg>"' links, and I would suggest that the same
replacement (via s/// in debian/rules) takes place in Debian.
Unlike Debian, Ubuntu has access to the apturl package, which is used by
default on Ubuntu for handling apt: links. On Debian the users would be
taken to GNOME Software instead, which is fine, and certainly better
than "Additional Packages Required".
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