Re: Bug#58174: metamail is unable to launch any file

[Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com>]

reassign 58174 metamail
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> Package: mime-support
> Version: 3.9-1
> Severity: important

Since /etc/mailcap was not included, there is no way I can determine
what the problem may be.  I'd guess that metamail is the source of
the problem, or possibly the mailcap line created by the zgv file.


> -------------------------------------------------------------
> metamail -c image/png imagename.png
> 
> This message contains PNG Image.
> Do you want to view it using the 'zgv' command (y/n) [y] ?
> ---Executing: zgv
> zgv: error loading file.
> Command failed:  /usr/bin/zgv '/tmp/mm.o3Dm1K'
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> /tmp/mm.Hgznjq does not exist :
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> -rw-------    1 guerard  guerard         0 fév 16 00:02 mm.AbmAYQ
> -rw-------    1 guerard  guerard         0 fév 16 00:02 mm.k3GkSZ
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> (both mm* did not exist before the command was launched).
> 
> Every other command I tried (file type) gave the same result :
> the command is provided with a non-existent file name !
> 
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: 2.2
> Architecture: i386
> Kernel: Linux tigreraye.yi.org 2.2.14 #1 SMP lun fév 14 19:59:40 UTC 2000 i686
> 
> -- Configuration Files:
> /etc/mailcap changed [not included]

                                          Brian
                                  ( bcwhite@pobox.com )

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