Bug#1107835: xdg-utils: xdg-email broken in default bookworm lxde session (possibly other sessions)

[Alexandru Mihail]

Package: xdg-utils
Version: 1.1.3-4.1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

With a freshly installed Bookworm (arm64 but that shouldnt matter)
system with LXDE + evolution installed, xdg-email says this:
xdg-email 
/usr/bin/xdg-email: 750: gnome-open: not found

worker at debian:~/Downloads$ apt-file search gnome-open
xpra: /usr/lib/xpra/gnome-open

It seems xpra is the lone provider of gnome-open as of now and as of
arm64. I can't install xpra here as it is a huge package and a security
risk in here. The old libgnome2-bin package which traditionally carried
the gnome-open command is long gone.
I suspect this is a detection issue related to my LXDE I presume.
I also tested with the version in sid and I have the same issue.
I have the same issue in XFCE too.
Also, If I xdg-open mailto://submit@bugs.debian.org

(evolution:25837): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: 15:00:11.028: Your application
did not unregister from D-Bus before destruction. Consider using
g_application_run().


This works and pops up a new Compose Evolution window. So, the
mechanism works in theory it's just the gnome-open call that breaks
xdg-email here.

Thanks and have a nice day,
Alexandru Mihail

-- Package-specific info:
Desktop environment: XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=LXDE

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 12.11
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500,
'stable')
Architecture: arm64 (aarch64)

Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-37-arm64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

xdg-utils depends on no packages.

Versions of packages xdg-utils recommends:
ii  libfile-mimeinfo-perl  0.33-1
ii  libnet-dbus-perl       1.2.0-2
ii  libx11-protocol-perl   0.56-9
ii  x11-utils              7.7+5
ii  x11-xserver-utils      7.7+9+b1

xdg-utils suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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