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Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.10-1+b1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Daniel,
with the new field for a packages homepage, it would be nice to have a menu
entry and hotkey to open a "sensible-browser" with the Homepage URL of the
current package (with no action, if there is no Homepage specified).
Thanks
Guenter
-- Package-specific info:
Terminal: rxvt
$DISPLAY is set.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6 0.7.9 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.7-1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libcwidget1 0.5.6.1-2+b1 high-level terminal interface libr
ii libgcc1 1:4.2.1-5 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.6+20071013-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.2.1-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.10-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter
pn libparse-debianchangelog-perl <none> (no description available)
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
2015-10-10 20:12 Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo:
Control: tags -1 + wontfix
Hello Guenter,
2008-01-22 09:25 G. Milde:
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.10-1+b1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Daniel,
with the new field for a packages homepage, it would be nice to have a menu
entry and hotkey to open a "sensible-browser" with the Homepage URL of the
current package (with no action, if there is no Homepage specified).
I am marking this bug as +wontfix, mainly because it's been for 7+ years
without being implemented, so I don't see it happening any time soon.
Also, because implementing this kind of features with a package that
often runs as root and sometimes remotely is tricky because:
- can become a security liability (and aptitude has a wide enough attack
surcface already), for example:
- one would have to make sure that the field is not malicious and
cannot be abused before passing it to another tool, etc
- running the browser as root is even more problematic
- root doesn't necessarily have permission to run graphical applications
if it was launched as another user, specially if run remotely
- even if it works when running it remotely, simply triggering the
action (which can maybe be done by mistake) can have undesired effects
like launch the browser in a way in which uses the remote X protocol
and take lots of time on slow connections, and maybe it is not easy to
cancel (specially if the intense flow data blocks the connection)
So I don't really think that it's a good idea to implement this, because
it's like opening a can of worms; and even if it was it means a
considerable amount of work, and I think that at the moment the scarce
time would be better spent in other more pressing problems.
Closing this now, for the reasons mentioned above.
--
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <[email protected]>
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