Control: severity -1 serious
On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 at 09:46:33 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> It appears this package only uses `gvfs-open`, which can be replaced by
> Gtk.show_uri_on_window(), Gio.AppInfo.launch_default_for_uri_async(),
> Gio.AppInfo.launch_default_for_uri(), or "gio open".
>
> Please prefer to use GTK/GLib APIs directly instead of executing
> subprocesses via a command line, and if you need to execute subprocesses,
> please prefer to use non-shell-based APIs like the subprocess module in
> the Python standard library.
>
> The upstream developers of gvfs have now removed all the tools that
> are packaged in gvfs-bin. For now I'm going to keep providing them
> as a Debian-specific addition, but I intend to remove the gvfs-bin
> package after buster is released, at which point this bug will become
> release-critical.
I think it's time to try to remove gvfs-bin.
smcv
