Bug#971813: Broken invocation through mailcap

phil.nightowl at gmail.com phil.nightowl at gmail.com
Wed Oct 7 20:54:11 BST 2020


Package: icedtea-netx
Version: 1.7.2-2

This is actually a follow-up to #924706. The symlinks have been fixed 
since, however the mailcap entries are still wrong.

$ ls /usr/share/icedtea-web/bin/

gives

itweb-settings.sh  itw-modularjdk.args  javaws.sh  policyeditor.sh


The alternatives' links seem to be fine...

/etc/alternatives/javaws -> /usr/share/icedtea-web/bin/javaws.sh
/usr/bin/javaws -> /etc/alternatives/javaws

... but /usr/lib/mime/packages/icedtea-netx still contains

application/x-java-jnlp-file; /usr/share/icedtea-web/bin/javaws %s

As a result, all programs using the mailcap system to run javaws fail to
do so.

Depending on what location is preferred(?), I suggest that 
/usr/lib/mime/packages/icedtea-netx should contain

application/x-java-jnlp-file; /usr/share/icedtea-web/bin/javaws.sh %s

or

application/x-java-jnlp-file; /usr/bin/javaws %s


Best regards,

Phil



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