Bug#939226: Dies with --action due to SCALAR ref being used with strict refs

2019-09-11 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor 
Control: tags 939226 + confirmed
Control: affects 939226 + xdg-utils xapers

On Mon 2019-09-02 23:33:32 +1200, martin f krafft wrote:
> Trying to use the --action command line results in the following 
> error being printed, as well as the tool exiting with exitcode 
> -1/255:
>
>   Can't use string ("action") as a SCALAR ref while "strict refs" in 
>   use at /usr/bin/run-mailcap line 329.

I can confirm that this is happening.  it causes xdg-open to fail for me
on pdf files, because run-mailcap then falls through to
x-www-browser. xdg-open failing in turn causes xapers to fail for me :(

   --dkg


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Bug#939226: Dies with --action due to SCALAR ref being used with strict refs

2019-09-02 Thread martin f krafft 

Package: mime-support
Version: 3.63
Severity: important
File: /usr/bin/run-mailcap

Trying to use the --action command line results in the following 
error being printed, as well as the tool exiting with exitcode 
-1/255:


 Can't use string ("action") as a SCALAR ref while "strict refs" in 
 use at /usr/bin/run-mailcap line 329.


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System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
 APT prefers unstable
 APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_NZ:en 
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

mime-support depends on no packages.

Versions of packages mime-support recommends:
ii  bzip2 1.0.6-9.2
ii  file  1:5.37-5
ii  xz-utils  5.2.4-1+b1

mime-support suggests no packages.

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