hello, On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 11:00:24PM +0200, Daniel Hahler wrote: > Here's the contents of debian/patches/003_use_sensible-browser.patch - > it appears to be using sensible-browser. > > > Author: Frank S. Thomas <fr...@thomas-alfeld.de> > > Description: use sensible-browser only, because upstream's attempt to > start a browser fails miserably. > Disclaimer: This patch is Debian-specific. Don't use it for non Debian > packages. > The program "sensible-browser" is part of the essential package debianutils. > > --- boinc.orig/clientgui/hyperlink.cpp > +++ boinc/clientgui/hyperlink.cpp > @@ -171,7 +171,8 @@ > } > > void wxHyperLink::ExecuteLink (const wxString &strLink) { > - if (!wxLaunchDefaultBrowser(strLink)) { > + wxString cmd = wxT("sensible-browser ") + strLink; > + if (!::wxExecute(cmd, wxEXEC_ASYNC)) { > wxString strDialogTitle = wxEmptyString; > wxString strDialogMessage = wxEmptyString;
Shouldn't this bug be closed then? boinc-manager is using the right way to spawn a browser, s-b. The only other thing the maint could do is to document it in README.Debian or so, but I consider this patch already working and perfectly fitting the debian env (I verified and it works just fine) Regards, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org