Package: reportbug Version: 6.4.3 Severity: minor File: /usr/bin/querybts Hi!
in urlutils.py:launch_browser, the xdg-open utility is used to open a browser to display results. This utility is part of the xdg-utils package and is suggested by reportbug. Having this utility installed means that the documented behaviour of the BROWSER environment variable is not followed as xdg-open does not obey BROWSER but instead has a pile of heuristics to determine what browser the user really wants. Using xdg-open is entirely appropriate as few people will have BROWSER configured but many will have a desktop environment configured to their preferred browser -- so I'm not suggesting changing that at all. A small addition to the BROWSER section of querybts(1) would be sufficient: Note that the BROWSER environment variable is not used inside desktop environments such as Gnome, KDE and Xfce if the xdg-open utility (from the xdg-utils package) is present. In those cases, the browser configured throught he desktop environment is used instead. (I realise that this is documenting the behaviour of xdg-open within querybts(1), but the user has no way of knowing that xdg-open would be used rather than sensible-browser or BROWSER so this needs to be pointed out somewhere.) cheers Stuart -- Package-specific info: ** Environment settings: EDITOR="/usr/bin/vim" DEBEMAIL="stu...@debian.org" DEBFULLNAME="Stuart Prescott" INTERFACE="text" ** /home/chswp/.reportbugrc: reportbug_version "3.48" mode standard ui text no-cc header "X-Debbugs-CC: stu...@debian.org" smtphost reportbug.debian.org -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing-proposed-updates APT policy: (550, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (550, 'testing'), (60, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-686-pae (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages reportbug depends on: ii apt 0.9.7.5 ii python 2.7.3~rc2-1 ii python-reportbug 6.4.3 reportbug recommends no packages. Versions of packages reportbug suggests: pn claws-mail <none> ii debconf-utils 1.5.46 ii debsums 2.0.52 ii dlocate 1.02 pn emacs22-bin-common | emacs23-bin-common <none> ii exim4 4.80-5 ii exim4-daemon-light [mail-transport-agent] 4.80-5 ii file 5.11-2 ii gnupg 1.4.12-4+b1 ii python-gtk2 2.24.0-3 pn python-gtkspell <none> pn python-urwid <none> ii python-vte 1:0.28.2-5 ii xdg-utils 1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-6 Versions of packages python-reportbug depends on: ii apt 0.9.7.5 ii python 2.7.3~rc2-1 ii python-debian 0.1.21 ii python-debianbts 1.11 ii python-support 1.0.15 python-reportbug suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
