[DRE-maint] ruby-launchy-shim_2.3.0_amd64.changes is NEW

[Antonio Terceiro]

Hello FTP Masters,

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 10:21:06PM +0000, Debian FTP Masters wrote:
> binary:ruby-launchy-shim is NEW.
> source:ruby-launchy-shim is NEW.

you will notice that this package is _small_. But we need it for some
reasons:

- launchy is a Ruby library that provides a cross-platform interface for
  "Opening a given URL in a web browser".

- it contains a lot of code for doing that in the right way in several
  platforms, so other upstreams depend on it.

- the original launchy library is a little messy, and basically
  unmaintainable in Debian due to several reasons.

- we already have 3-4 packages that should depend on launchy, but we
  ended up patching them to remove the dependency. These patches are
  starting to become a maintainability issue.

- in pratice, the code path that will run on Debian systems is
  equivalent to the code in this package, i.e. "just call xdg-open".
  This package provides the same API as the original package, and is
  very easy for us to maintain.

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org>
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