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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
