Package: python3.8
Version: 3.8.5-2
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
User: [email protected]
Usertags: gvfs-bin-deprecation
rust-webbrowser tries to open URLs via "gvfs-open $URL" and
"gnome-open $URL". Both are obsolete; the replacement is "gio open $URL",
using the gio(1) tool from the libglib2.0-bin package.
The gvfs-open tool was superseded by gio(1) in 2015, and removed from
upstream GNOME in 2018. The version in Debian is currently a
Debian-specific patch, which we would like to remove before Debian 11.
The gnome-open tool was superseded by gvfs-open in 2008, ceased to be
part of GNOME releases after about 2011, most recently appeared in a
Debian stable release as part of Debian 9, and was finally removed from
Debian in 2019.
Please use "gio open $URL", with an appropriate level of dependency
on libglib2.0-bin (probably no dependency). If support for pre-2015
distributions is required, it would be OK to fall back to gvfs-open if
gio(1) is not found. At this point, calling gnome-open is probably a
bad idea even if it is somehow still installed.
Thanks,
smcv
