Bug#658139: evince: missing mime entry

[Michael Biebl]

severity 658139 wishlist
tags 658139 + wontfix
thanks

On 31.01.2012 17:18, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Package: evince
> Severity: important
> Tags: patch
> 
> Hi,
> 
> several programs (for instance see, mc) are regarding mime entries
> in mailcap file and can not find a PDF viewer in case only evince is
> installed.  This ends up in something like:

Since Joss has removed this file on purpose, it's very unlikely that it
is coming back.

This topic has been discussed several times already. Instead of
maintaining these files by hand (remember, we do have quite a few in the
GNOME repo), those mailcap entries should be generated automatically
from the *.desktop files that are provided upstream and already contain
all the necessary information.
We don't want to maintain a second mime database by hand in parallel.

From our pov, someone interested in this topic should write a small
tool, which does this automatically and is dpkg triggered.

Cheers,
Michael



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