Bug#647272: mailcap deprecated?

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mercredi 16 novembre 2011 à 02:04 -0500, Michael Leuchtenburg a
écrit : 
> Is it now Debian's policy to not support mailcap as a mechanism for
> resolving MIME references? I can find no reference to this anywhere, so
> I am puzzled by this regression. It caused Chrome to fail to open PDFs
> as it uses xdg-open. This was very time-consuming to track down.

I’d say it is a bug in xdg-open to rely on mailcap as a fallback. It
should use the mechanisms in gio as soon as they are available.

It is also a bug in Chrome to use xdg-open and not gio, since it already
links to gio through gtk+.

Cheers,
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