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 <[email protected]>
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