Bug#991187: libfile-mimeinfo-perl: Use of uninitialized value $file in open at /usr/share/perl5/File/MimeInfo/Applications.pm line 140

[Felix Lechner]

Package: libfile-mimeinfo-perl
Version: 0.30-1
Severity: minor

Hi,

Under the Wayland compositor Sway (with Gnome 3 installed) I followed this
advice [1] to make evince the default application for PDFs once again. When I
invoked 'mimeopen -d XYZ.pdf' the program worked fine but also produced the
following warnings:

Use of uninitialized value $file in open at
/usr/share/perl5/File/MimeInfo/Applications.pm line 140.
Use of uninitialized value $file in open at
/usr/share/perl5/File/MimeInfo/Applications.pm line 140.
Use of uninitialized value $file in open at
/usr/share/perl5/File/MimeInfo/Applications.pm line 140.
Use of uninitialized value $file in open at
/usr/share/perl5/File/MimeInfo/Applications.pm line 140.

Based on my Perl experience, I assume that the messages are probably
unintended.

At the same time, the program's functionality was not affected. Also, mimeopen
is rarely invoked in a terminal and probably more often via a graphical
application with output redirected. Therefore, this bug is not urgent at all.

Thank you for maintaining this software in Debian!

Kind regards,
Felix Lechner

[1] https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/350103


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
  APT prefers testing-security
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500,
'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not
set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages libfile-mimeinfo-perl depends on:
ii  libencode-locale-perl      1.05-1.1
ii  libfile-basedir-perl       0.08-1
ii  libfile-desktopentry-perl  0.22-2
ii  perl                       5.32.1-4
ii  shared-mime-info           2.0-1

Versions of packages libfile-mimeinfo-perl recommends:
ii  libio-stringy-perl  2.111-3

libfile-mimeinfo-perl suggests no packages.