Bug#859001: Let's remove BrowserLauncher from Stretch

[Ole Streicher]

Tags: affects -1 jmodeltest

I submitted fixes for all three bugs to the git repository. However,
even after applying them libbrowserlauncher does not work:

$ java -classpath /usr/share/java/BrowserLauncher2.jar \
     edu.stanford.ejalbert.BrowserLauncher https://www.debian.org

should display a web page in the default browser, but does nothing.

The package is also unfortunate since it establishes a secondary browser
selection and is not conform to the freedesktop.org specification
("xdg-open").

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).

Best regards

Ole

package edu.stanford.ejalbert;

import java.io.IOException;

/*
 * Simple replacement for the BrowserLauncher, which is compatible to the
 * Free Desktop Consortium.
 */
public class BrowserLauncher {
    public void openURLinBrowser(String url)  {
	try {
	    Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] { "xdg-open", url } );
	} catch (IOException e) {
	}
    }
    public void setNewWindowPolicy(boolean b) {
    }
}