Le mercredi 16 novembre 2011 à 02:04 -0500, Michael Leuchtenburg a écrit : > Is it now Debian's policy to not support mailcap as a mechanism for > resolving MIME references? I can find no reference to this anywhere, so > I am puzzled by this regression. It caused Chrome to fail to open PDFs > as it uses xdg-open. This was very time-consuming to track down.
I’d say it is a bug in xdg-open to rely on mailcap as a fallback. It should use the mechanisms in gio as soon as they are available. It is also a bug in Chrome to use xdg-open and not gio, since it already links to gio through gtk+. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' `-
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