Hello Jason, On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 12:15:35PM -0600, Jason Crain wrote: > Having this same problem with nautilus-sendto: https://bugs.debian.org/855449 > > nautilus-sendto calls icedove/thunderbird as "/usr/bin/icedove -compose > attachment='file:///tmp/attachment'" when trying to email a file. This > no longer works with the new thunderbird. However, after applying the > patch in https://bugs.debian.org/855334, it will work if the command is > changed to "/usr/bin/icedove -- -compose attachment='file:///tmp/attachment'". > > Is this the recommended way to do it now? Debian's icedove/thunderbird > is going to now require "--" before any options?
yes, this assumption is correct. But please don't use icedove in any helper script then. /usr/bin/icedove comes from a transitional package that could be removed every time by the user. It is of course working because /u/b/icedove is symlinked to /u/b/thunderbird. We need this '--' operator to seperate options for the wrapper from the options for the thunderbird binary itself. The patch from Daniel is applied to the current packaging work and will be available with the next upload. Regards Carsten
