Bug#859005: Bug#859001: Let's remove BrowserLauncher from Stretch

[Ole Streicher]

Am 30.03.2017 um 14:14 schrieb Emmanuel Bourg:
> Le 30/03/2017 à 13:47, Ole Streicher a écrit :
> 
>> 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).
> 
> What about using the JDK API for launching the browser instead (the
> browse(URI) method in the java.awt.Desktop class [1]) ?
> 
> Emmanuel Bourg
> 
> [1]
> http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/awt/Desktop.html#browse(java.net.URI)

That is even better. I didn't know that, thanks for the hint. IMO that
makes the BrowserLauncher package *really* obsolete here.

For #859107, I will prepare another patch.

Cheers

Ole