Bug#782346: geomview uses netsurf for seeing HTML manual where I use iceweasel for all HTML files.

[shirish शिरीष]

Package: geomview
Version: 1.9.4-4.1
Severity: normal
user debian-edu at lists.debian.org
usertag: debian-edu

Dear Maintainer,
For some unknown reason whenever I want to view the HTML files
geomview invokes netsurf for some unknown reason. Before installing
geomview iceweasel was the default application for html files.

To fix this had to enter text/html in ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

cat ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list | grep text/html
text/html=iceweasel.desktop

as well as in mimeinfo.cache

 cat /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache | grep text/html
text/html=iceweasel.desktop;kde4-kfmclient_html.desktop;chromium.desktop;midori.desktop;netsurf-gtk.desktop;dillo.desktop;geany.desktop;bluefish.desktop;arora.desktop;notepadqq.desktop;

Why this needed to be done is beyond me as before whenever I used to
open a hyper-link (even in my mail or elsewhere) iceweasel had the
first dibs.

Looking forward to know why this happened and if there is a permanent
solution possible.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'testing-updates'), (1,
'experimental'), (1, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages geomview depends on:
ii  dpkg                      1.17.24
ii  install-info              5.2.0.dfsg.1-6
ii  libc6                     2.19-17
ii  libgcc1                   1:5-20150404-1
ii  libgeomview-1.9.4         1.9.4-4.1
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]  10.3.2-1
ii  libglu1-mesa [libglu1]    9.0.0-2
ii  libice6                   2:1.0.9-1+b1
ii  libsm6                    2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii  libstdc++6                4.9.2-10
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.2-3
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxm4                    2.3.4-6+b1
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.4-1+b1

Versions of packages geomview recommends:
ii  atril [pdf-viewer]    1.8.1+dfsg1-4
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]   3.14.1-2
ii  zathura [pdf-viewer]  0.3.1-2

geomview suggests no packages.

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