Package: evince Version: 3.2.1-1 Followup-For: Bug #647272 I also find it unfortunate that a single package drops support unilateraly. It's just one file to ship with the package, and is causing major regressions in third party packages which assume this "just works". In other words, I do not think the benefits justify the breakage, for those of us that do not use a "Desktop Environment".
I do not object to the arguments brought forward however: it does make sense to deprecate the mailcap file, but it seems to me this should be done in an orderly fashion, not in a "shoot first ask questions later" approach. The way this is happening now just means I can't use Evince anymore.. In fact, we could say that Evince is not respecting the "Debian MIME support sub-policy" as detailed here: http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/mime-policy/ This policy is still reference by the current Debian Policy: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-mime If that policy needs to be changed, fine, but please do not break the policy. For those who want to fix this regression on their own, you can either add the following mailcap lines: application/pdf; /usr/bin/evince '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != ""; description=Portable Document Format; nametemplate=%s.pdf application/x-pdf; /usr/bin/evince '%s'; test=test "$DISPLAY" != ""; description=Portable Document Format; ... to either: a. your ~/.mailcap file b. to the top of the /etc/mailcap file (between the magic lines) c. or in /usr/lib/mime/packages/evince and rerun update-mime Note: I have just taken the mime configuration of xpdf and replaced xpdf with evince, which seems to work. Having the original evince mime lines would probably be more appropriate here. -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_CA.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages evince depends on: ii evince-common 3.2.1-1 ii gnome-icon-theme 3.2.1.2-1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.2.0-2 ii libc6 2.13-21 ii libcairo-gobject2 1.10.2-6.1 ii libcairo2 1.10.2-6.1 ii libevince3-3 3.2.1-1 ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-3 ii libfreetype6 2.4.8-1 ii libgail-3-0 3.2.2-3 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.24.0-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.30.2-4 ii libgnome-keyring0 3.2.2-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.2.2-3 ii libice6 2:1.0.7-2 ii libnautilus-extension1a 3.2.1-2+b1 ii libpango1.0-0 1.29.4-2 ii libsm6 2:1.2.0-2 ii libx11-6 2:1.4.4-4 ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-5 ii shared-mime-info 0.90-1 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 Versions of packages evince recommends: ii dbus-x11 1.4.16-1 ii gvfs 1.10.1-2 Versions of packages evince suggests: ii nautilus 3.2.1-2+b1 ii poppler-data 0.4.5-2 ii unrar 1:4.0.3-1 -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org