Bug#969779: notification-daemon: Please do not use gvfs-open

[Simon McVittie]

Source: notification-daemon
Version: 3.20.0-4
Severity: important
User: pkg-gnome-maintainers at lists.alioth.debian.org
Usertags: gvfs-bin-deprecation

gnome-flashback appears to contain a call to the deprecated gvfs-open(1)
utility, but does not depend on the package containing that utility.
(See on_activate_link() in src/nd-bubble.c.)

gvfs-open was superseded by gio(1) in 2015 and removed from upstream GNOME
in 2018. It is currently still available in the gvfs-bin package as a
Debian-specific addition, but we want to remove it before Debian 11.

The best way to open a URL is to use appropriate platform APIs like
gtk_show_uri_on_window() instead of calling out to external commands.

Since there is already no dependency, I am not intending to let this
bug block the removal of the gvfs-bin package.

Thanks,
    smcv