hi all, i'm having the same problem described on 31 Jan 2012 by Andreas Tille: see, mutt and all other programs depending on mailcap are not able to open PDF files with **evince** please see Debian policy 9.7 about multimedia handlers: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-mime please also consider that /etc/mailcap is a standard since a long ago and that all users of "console based" applications in Debian are expecting that /etc/mailcap is updated automatically by installed applications this problem is strictly related to evince, **not** general, so please reassign this bug to evince package a simple workaround is to install one of the other available PDF viewers fully compliant with the update-mime policy, I'm using epdfview about alternative solutions proposed, on 2012.01.31 Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> said: ........... This topic has been discussed several times already. Instead of maintaining these files by hand (remember, we do have quite a few in the GNOME repo), those mailcap entries should be generated automatically from the *.desktop files that are provided upstream and already contain all the necessary information. We don't want to maintain a second mime database by hand in parallel. ............ so the proposed solution is that *users* will maintain mime-support database by hand? if this topic has been discussed several times why the Debian policy 9.7 still mandates support for update-mime? the idea not to maintain 2 files containing the same information is interesting and should be done with proper tools on maintainers side, not on users side... or by standard tools such those found in mime-support if there is enough consensus to drop (or extend) Debian policy 9.7 in favour of a new one using *.desktop files to register mime-types (dropping /usr/lib/mime/packages/ files and mime-suport) I'm willing to help to develop a new tool all this work should lead to a new written policy *and* related tools similar to mime-support meanwhile could you please roll back to /usr/lib/mime/packages/evince? thanks Ciao Giovanni -- Giovanni Biscuolo Xelera - IT infrastructures http://xelera.eu/contact-us/
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