Bug#770159: atril: can't see pdf attachment file with mutt

[Mike Gabriel]

Control: close -1
Control: tags -1 wontfix

On  Mi 19 Nov 2014 10:33:06 CET, Gerard ROBIN wrote:

> Package: atril
> Version: 1.8.0+dfsg1-2~bpo70+1
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Dear Maintainer,
> when I install evince, the file /etc/mailcap is updated automatically
> and I can see the pdf files attached to an email, but if I remove evince
> and I install atril instead, the file /etc/mailcap is not updated.
>
> Is it possible that when installing the package atril the mailcap file
> is automatically configured so that mutt can view the pdf attachment ?
>
> thanks

I looked into this issue just now. The issue is wheezy-backports  
specific and does not exist in Debian jessie and beyond. To get this  
fixed in Debian wheezy-backports, someone has to backport mime-support  
 >= 3.53 to wheezy-backports [1].

In 3.53 of mime-support, a patch was added that allows parsing of  
.desktop files via /usr/sbin/update-mime (which gets called by the  
mime-support trigger after package installation).

Evince in Debian wheezy ships debian/evince.mime (a mime handler  
description file to be appended to /etc/mailcap). For jessie this  
evince.mime file got removed by the GNOME package maintainers [2].

In Atril, we don't ship such a file (debian/atril.mime) and won't do  
in the future.

Thus, the really sane fix is uploading mime-support 3.58 to  
wheezy-backports (not sure about the side-effects, though).

Closing this bug (as it is a non-stable, non-testing, non-unstable  
issue) and tagging as "wontfix".

@Gerard: Please upgrade to jessie sooner or later to see this issue  
solved for you.

Mike

[1] http://bugs.debian.org/497779
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/658139
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