[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#619667: imagemagick: mailcap still broken (as #589887)

[Felix Salfelder]

Package: imagemagick
Version: 8:6.6.0.4-3
Severity: important


Hello.

it seems, that a limitation (probably a bug) in mime-support=3.48-1 is
triggered (at least) by imagemagick=8:6.6.0.4-3 (squeeze):

while in lenny, imagemagick provides an update-mime input file
/usr/lib/mime/packages/imagemagick, containing lines like

image/xyz; display 'xyz:%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"

the file shipped with squeeze, now
/usr/lib/mime/packages/imagemagick contains lines

image/xyz; display xyz:'%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"; priority=2.

update-mime (squeeze), reading the corresponding file, for whatever
reason, outputs lines

image/xyz; display 'xyz:'%s''; test=test -n "$DISPLAY";

into /etc/mailcap. for some other reason, run-mailcap (aka. see) fails
to parse this line, resulting in the error reported by Bastian
Kleineidam (#589887, archived).

while the behaviour or mime-support is certainly annoying, i see no
reason, why "xyz:'%s'" (squeeze) should be preferred to the previously
working version "'xyz:%s'". this issue for example affects the function
of all serious mail readers (if theres no package installed that
provides a working rule with higher priority), thus, is important.

after all, until mime-support is fixed, it would make sense to change
all occurrences of ([a-z]*):'%s' in /usr/lib/mime/packages/imagemagick
to '\1:%s'.

regards & thanks
felix

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages imagemagick depends on:
ii  libbz2-1.0              1.0.5-6          high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6                   2.11.2-10        Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libfontconfig1          2.8.0-2.1        generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6            2.4.2-2.1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.24.2-1         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgomp1                4.4.5-8          GCC OpenMP (GOMP) support library
ii  libice6                 2:1.0.6-2        X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libjpeg62               6b1-1            The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  liblcms1                1.18.dfsg-1.2+b3 Color management library
ii  liblqr-1-0              0.4.1-1          converts plain array images into m
ii  libltdl7                2.2.6b-2         A system independent dlopen wrappe
ii  libmagickcore3          8:6.6.0.4-3      low-level image manipulation libra
ii  libmagickwand3          8:6.6.0.4-3      image manipulation library
ii  libsm6                  2:1.1.1-1        X11 Session Management library
ii  libtiff4                3.9.4-5          Tag Image File Format (TIFF) libra
ii  libx11-6                2:1.3.3-4        X11 client-side library
ii  libxext6                2:1.1.2-1        X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxt6                  1:1.0.7-1        X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  zlib1g                  1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime

Versions of packages imagemagick recommends:
ii  ghostscript               8.71~dfsg2-9   The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF
pn  libmagickcore3-extra      <none>         (no description available)
ii  netpbm                    2:10.0-12.2+b1 Graphics conversion tools between 
pn  ufraw-batch               <none>         (no description available)

Versions of packages imagemagick suggests:
pn  autotrace       <none>                   (no description available)
pn  curl            <none>                   (no description available)
ii  enscript        1.6.5.2-1                converts text to Postscript, HTML 
pn  ffmpeg          <none>                   (no description available)
ii  gimp            2.4.7-1                  The GNU Image Manipulation Program
ii  gnuplot         4.4.0-1.1                A command-line driven interactive 
pn  grads           <none>                   (no description available)
ii  groff-base      1.20.1-10                GNU troff text-formatting system (
pn  hp2xx           <none>                   (no description available)
pn  html2ps         <none>                   (no description available)
pn  imagemagick-doc <none>                   (no description available)
pn  libwmf-bin      <none>                   (no description available)
ii  lprng [lpr]     3.8.A-3                  lpr/lpd printer spooling system
ii  mplayer         2:1.0~rc3++final.dfsg1-1 movie player for Unix-like systems
ii  povray          1:3.6.1-12               Persistence of vision raytracer (3
pn  radiance        <none>                   (no description available)
pn  sane-utils      <none>                   (no description available)
ii  texlive-binarie 2009-8                   Binaries for TeX Live
pn  transfig        <none>                   (no description available)
ii  xdg-utils       1.0.2+cvs20100307-2      desktop integration utilities from

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