Bug#1115704: gnome-session-common: doesn't prefer Papers/Showtime if Evince/Totem aren't installed

[Martin-Éric Racine]

pe 19.9.2025 klo 12.55 Simon McVittie (smcv at debian.org) kirjoitti:
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> Control: retitle -1 gnome-session-common: doesn't prefer Papers/Showtime if Evince/Totem aren't installed
> Control: reassign -1 gnome-session-common 48.0-1
> Control: fixed -1 49.0-1
> Control: affects -1 + papers showtime
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> On Fri, 19 Sep 2025 at 11:21:33 +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> >pe 19.9.2025 klo 11.17 Simon McVittie (smcv at debian.org) kirjoitti:
> >> I see that the /usr/share/applications/gnome-mimeapps.list in
> >> gnome-session-common only lists Evince and not Papers, so there's
> >> certainly a change to be made there.
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> Reassigning to gnome-session-common accordingly.

Agreed.

> The gnome-session-common in experimental already prefers Papers, but I
> don't think we're ready to release that to unstable yet.

Stable/Unstable don't have to prefer the new apps. They merely have to
acknowledge that Papers is a valid app for the same MIME types as
Evince and Showtime for the same ones as Totem.

> Totem -> Showtime has the same problem as Evince -> Papers, we might as
> well deal with that at the same time.

Agreed.

Martin-Éric