Control: severity 723708 important Control: found 723708 3.54 Control: found 723708 3.55~experimental1
The mime-support maintainer has closed bug #745141 <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745141#26>, in which I was asserting that update-mime should quote %s in mailcap entries to avoid problems with filenames containing spaces. His decision is that %s should not be quoted, based on a reading of the RFC1524 <http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1524.html>, which seems to suggest that it is up to mailcap clients to ensure that substitution of %s be done as a single argument to the program in question. Given this, I think it is fair to say that this bug (#723708) is verified, as run-mailcap is incorrectly handling non-quoted %s mailcap entries (which often happen to be generated by update-mime in this same package). As I noted when I opened bug #745141 <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=745141#5>, I've been running into this problem with run-mailcap and imagemagick, whereby run-mailcap is splitting filenames on spaces and sending each part as a separate argument to the program listed in the mailcap entry when %s is not quoted. The following mailcap entry fails in this fashion: image/jpeg; /usr/bin/display.im6 %s; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" Whereas, the following mailcap entry does not fail: image/jpeg; display.im6 'jpeg:%s'; test=test -n "$DISPLAY" The non-quoted mailcap entry appears first on a system with imagemagick installed without further configuration, due to update-mime putting desktop entry conversions into the mailcap ahead of package-provided native mailcap entries. This undermines the utility of the imagemagick package installing native mailcap entries, and results in a broken mailcap configuration for handling images via run-mailcap+imagemagick when filenames contain spaces. Due to the mechanism at work, this would mean run-mailcap is also failing on filenames containing spaces for any other mailcap entries converted from desktop entries by update-mime, as well as any other mailcap entries otherwise not quoting %s regardless of source. -- Joseph Spiros jos...@josephspiros.com +1 (440) 707-6855 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
