[Pkg-kbd-devel] Bug#732796:

[Ma Xiaojun]

Package: kbd
Version: 1.15.5-1
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

This package uses open(1).
This usage is neither standard (in terms of LSB and POSIX) nor popular.

The unpopularity can be seen as BusyBox implements openvt(1) only [1]
while toybox
has no plan for openvt(1) or open(1) [2].

Meanwhile, some other OS like OSX (and probably Haiku) use open(1) to provide
desktop integration [3]. Similar functionality is provided by xdg-open(1) now on
Linux. Some people, including I, believe that giving open(1) to xdg stuff is
probably a good idea [4][5].

The very first step would be discontinue open(1) that is symbol linked to
openvt(1). In other words, it is to remove open(1) from this package.

1. http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html
2. http://www.landley.net/toybox/status.html
3. https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/open.1.html
4. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2013-December/012936.html
5. http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xdg/2013-December/012969.html