Bug#859001: Let's remove BrowserLauncher from Stretch

[Ole Streicher]

Tags: affects -1 jmodeltest

I submitted fixes for all three bugs to the git repository. However,
even after applying them libbrowserlauncher does not work:

$ java -classpath /usr/share/java/BrowserLauncher2.jar \
     edu.stanford.ejalbert.BrowserLauncher https://www.debian.org

should display a web page in the default browser, but does nothing.

The package is also unfortunate since it establishes a secondary browser
selection and is not conform to the freedesktop.org specification
("xdg-open").

Since there is only one dependency (jmodeltest), I recommend to remove
the package from Stretch and to patch out the dependency with a minimal
implementation of browserlauncher that uses xdg-open (see attachment).

Best regards

Ole
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