Bug#859004: Bug#859001: Let's remove BrowserLauncher from Stretch

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Le 30/03/2017 à 13:47, Ole Streicher a écrit :

> Since there is only one dependency (jmodeltest), I recommend to remove
> the package from Stretch and to patch out the dependency with a minimal
> implementation of browserlauncher that uses xdg-open (see attachment).

What about using the JDK API for launching the browser instead (the
browse(URI) method in the java.awt.Desktop class [1]) ?

Emmanuel Bourg

[1]
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/awt/Desktop.html#browse(java.net.URI)