xdg-open should open apt:// with apturl by default, not the default browser

[Julien Lavergne]

Binary package hint: xdg-utils

Currently, xdg-open use default browser to open apturl links, which is not really useful.
On Gnome, gnome-open is used for xdg-open, so it's working on Gnome environnement. But, on others environnements, it doesn't work unless something else is used to open links (gnme-open, exo ...).
To be perfect, it should open apturl links by default with apturl, or with the handler specify by default.list.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Nicholas Guriev (mymedia)]

In the described case, xdg-open in generic mode relies on the /usr/share/applications/apturl.desktop file that is provided by the apturl-common package, and the utility correctly calls to apturl. At present, we may consider the bug fixed.

$ apt-cache policy xdg-utils apturl-common
xdg-utils:
  Installed: 1.1.3-2ubuntu2
  Candidate: 1.1.3-2ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 1.1.3-2ubuntu2 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
apturl-common:
  Installed: 0.5.2ubuntu20
  Candidate: 0.5.2ubuntu20
  Version table:
 *** 0.5.2ubuntu20 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu hirsute/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status