Package: mime-support
Version: 3.54
Severity: important
When update-mime converts desktop entries from /usr/share/applications into
mailcap entries, it does not properly quote arguments. I ran into this problem
when trying to display an image with a space in its filename using run-mailcap.
I have imagemagick installed, so the relevant mailcap entries, in the
repeatable order generated by update-mime, are:
image/jpeg; /usr/bin/display.im6 %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"
image/jpeg; display.im6 'jpeg:%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"
The first entry, which is what ends up being used as it's listed first, fails
with a typical "file not found" error with a path truncated at the location of
the first space, as the mailcap entry needs to quote the "%s" portion of the
commands to ensure that space-containing filenames are passed as a single
argument. The second entry succeeds because the "%s" is quoted. The first entry
is converted from the Exec line in /usr/share/applications/display.im6.desktop,
"Exec=/usr/bin/display.im6 %f". The second entry is obtained from
/usr/lib/mime/packages/imagemagick. After installing mirage, I now have another
mailcap entry converted from a desktop entry, and it has exactly the same
error, so this is not specific to imagemagick. ("Exec=mirage %f" is converted
to "image/jpeg; mirage %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY"")
I am not familiar enough with Perl to provide a patch, but I can tell where
this is happening in update-mime, and it seems like an easy fix for someone
confident in their Perl ability. I believe the relevant lines are under "sub
ReadDesktopEntries", in the block beginning "elsif (m/Exec=(.*)$/i) {".
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (800, 'testing'), (700, 'unstable'), (600, 'stable'), (500,
'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
mime-support depends on no packages.
Versions of packages mime-support recommends:
ii file 1:5.14-2
mime-support suggests no packages.
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