Package: icedove Version: 31.8.0-1~deb8u1 Followup-For: Bug #728834 I've had the same issue, and it was solved by installing desktop-file-utils. This package is not listed as a dependency of icedove.
-- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages icedove depends on: ii debianutils 4.4+b1 ii fontconfig 2.11.0-6.3 ii libasound2 1.0.28-1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.14.0-1 ii libc6 2.19-18+deb8u1 ii libcairo2 1.14.0-2.1 ii libdbus-1-3 1.8.20-0+deb8u1 ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.102-1 ii libevent-2.0-5 2.0.21-stable-2 ii libffi6 3.1-2+b2 ii libfontconfig1 2.11.0-6.3 ii libfreetype6 2.5.2-3+deb8u1 ii libgcc1 1:4.9.2-10 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.31.1-2+deb8u3 ii libglib2.0-0 2.42.1-1 ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.25-3 ii libhunspell-1.3-0 1.3.3-3 ii libnspr4 2:4.10.7-1 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpangoft2-1.0-0 1.36.8-3 ii libpixman-1-0 0.32.6-3 ii libsqlite3-0 3.8.7.1-1+deb8u1 ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-4 ii libstdc++6 4.9.2-10 ii libvpx1 1.3.0-3 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.2-3 ii libxext6 2:1.3.3-1 ii libxrender1 1:0.9.8-1+b1 ii libxt6 1:1.1.4-1+b1 ii psmisc 22.21-2 ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1 Versions of packages icedove recommends: ii hunspell-en-us [hunspell-dictionary] 20070829-6 Versions of packages icedove suggests: pn fonts-lyx <none> ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.12.1+dfsg-19+deb8u1 -- no debconf information
