Package: xdg-utils
Version: 1.1.1-1+deb9u1
Followup-For: Bug #838120
Tags: patch
xdg-mime should not just give up if neither gvfs-info nor gnomevfs-info are
present.
I therefore attach a trivial patch adding the obvious else statement, for
your consideration.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.7
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500,
'stable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (480, 'testing'), (470, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
(charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
xdg-utils depends on no packages.
Versions of packages xdg-utils recommends:
pn libfile-mimeinfo-perl <none>
pn libnet-dbus-perl <none>
pn libx11-protocol-perl <none>
ii x11-utils 7.7+3+b1
ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+7+b1
Versions of packages xdg-utils suggests:
pn gvfs-bin <none>
-- no debconf information
--- /usr/bin/xdg-mime 2018-05-20 17:44:40.000000000 +0800
+++ xdg-mime 2019-03-09 16:48:13.391515286 +0800
@@ -636,6 +636,10 @@
elif gnomevfs-info --help 2>/dev/null 1>&2; then
DEBUG 1 "Running gnomevfs-info \"$1\""
gnomevfs-info --slow-mime "$1" 2> /dev/null | grep "^MIME" | cut -d ":" -f 2 | sed s/"^ "//
+ else
+ # maybe we're not as Gnome-y as we think we are? Fall back to generic method.
+ DEBUG 1 "Falling back to generic method"
+ info_generic "$@"
fi
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
