symlink of /bin/open to /bin/openvt obsolete

Bug #342581 reported by sehrgut
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kbd (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: kbd

As of intrepid (8.10) and kbd 1.14.1-3ubuntu3, kbd installs a symlink from /bin/open to /bin/openvt. This legacy behaviour doesn't seem to be depended-upon by any scripts within the distro itself, which all refer to the appropriate /bin/openvt. I can understand keeping this functionality to avoid breaking scripts the distro uses (though any such scripts should be rewritten to use the more appropriate command name), but it really doesn't seem necessary to keep it. This would free a package such as xdg-utils to use the command 'open' as a link to something of more immediate utility, namely xdg-open.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in kbd (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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