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xdg-utils package

xdg-mime query filetype FILE: no output at all

Bug #602799 reported by Romano Giannetti on 2010-07-07

This bug affects 5 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to
Xdg-utils	Fix Released	Medium	freedesktop-bugs #33094
xdg-utils (Debian)	Fix Released	Unknown	debbugs #618624
xdg-utils (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Scott Ritchie

Bug Description

Binary package hint: xdg-utils

The summary is quite clear. In Lucid Lynx, if I issue

xdg-mime query filetype ./myfile.pdf

I have no error but no output (I expected application/pdf). On the other hand,

xdg-open ./myfile.pdf

do work.

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lp:ubuntu/natty/xdg-utils

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Dan Cruz (dan-cruzalong) wrote on 2010-09-29:

I have also experienced this problem under Lucid where:

xdg-mime query filetype /bin/true

does not output any information. I tried:

XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=1 xdg-mime query filetype /bin/true

and did get a message

Running gnomevfs-info "/bin/true"

However, gnomevfs-info is not available on my PATH. The package libgnomevfs2-bin contains the /usr/bin/gnomevfs-info file, but this package was not installed. After installing libgnomevfs2-bin:

xdg-mime query filetype /bin/true

displays

application/octet-stream

The xdg-utils package lists libgnomevfs2-bin as a suggested package.

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Romano Giannetti (romano-giannetti) wrote on 2010-11-06:

I update to Maverick (no manual installation of libgnomevfs2-bin) and all is well.

Changed in xdg-utils (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Fix Released

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Damjan Jovanovic (damjan-jov) wrote on 2011-02-26:

This is definitely NOT fixed on Maverick (x86_64):

$ xdg-mime query filetype file.txt
$ export XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=10
$ xdg-mime query filetype file.txt
Running gnomevfs-info "/home/user/file.txt"

There is no gnomevfs-info installed:

$ gnomevfs-info
The program 'gnomevfs-info' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install libgnomevfs2-bin

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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote on 2011-02-26:

In Maverick:

apt-cache rdepends libgnomevfs2-bin
libgnomevfs2-bin
Reverse Depends:
libgnomevfs2-0

apt-cache show libgnomevfs2-0
Suggests: libgnomevfs2-bin

libgnomevfs2-bin seems to be in universe and libgnomevfs2-0 is in main. This makes no sense to me since they come from the same source package.

Regardless xdg-utils should recommend libgnomevfs2-bin for the reason in this bug

Changed in xdg-utils (Ubuntu):
status:	Fix Released → Confirmed

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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote on 2011-03-01:

For this case, I propose: Recommends: gvfs-bin | libgnomevfs2-bin | kdebase-runtime

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2011-03-17

Changed in xdg-utils (Debian):
status:	Unknown → New

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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote on 2011-03-28:

After talking at Debian, I see where the bug is, and it's in a language I understand.

Changed in xdg-utils (Ubuntu):
assignee:	nobody → Scott Ritchie (scottritchie)
importance:	Undecided → Medium

Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) on 2011-03-28

Changed in xdg-utils (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → In Progress

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Scott Ritchie (scottritchie) wrote on 2011-03-29:

Complete fix -- fallback to generic on Gnome Edit (3.6 KiB, text/plain)

The attached patch fixes it. Please sponsor, as I don't have main upload rights.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2011-03-29

Changed in xdg-utils:
importance:	Unknown → Medium
status:	Unknown → Fix Released

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2011-03-30:

Sponsored, waiting in natty unapproved for end of beta-1 freeze. Thanks!

Changed in xdg-utils (Ubuntu):
status:	In Progress → Fix Committed

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2011-03-30

tags:

added: patch

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2011-03-31:

This bug was fixed in the package xdg-utils - 1.1.0~rc1-2ubuntu1

---------------
xdg-utils (1.1.0~rc1-2ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  [ Martin Pitt ]
  * Add xdg-update-menu-caonicalize-defaults.list.diff: Don't overwrite a
    /usr/share/applications/defaults.list symlink. Thanks to Joe Ebel for the
    original patch! (LP: #703106)

  [ Scott Ritchie ]
  * debian/patches/xdg-generic-use-mimetype.diff:
    - Update to fallback to generic on Gnome (LP: #602799)
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Wed, 30 Mar 2011 13:11:39 +0200