Hi Russ,
This question came up recently on the git mailing list in the context
of git web--browse (a backend used by git instaweb and some other
commands). It would have been nice to have clear advice in Debian
policy to guide what we should do.
From the point of view of improving upstream
Jonathan Nieder wrote:
1. For desktop apps, recommend unconditional use of xdg-open.
2. For everyone else:
[...]
c. For non-desktop apps lacking support for the BROWSER variable,
recommend unconditional use of xdg-open (for the same reason).
Gah, for xdg-open in 2c, please
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