[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#617723: chromium: Breaks Preferred Applications setting in Gnome

[Hongzheng Wang]

Package: chromium
Version: 10.0.648.114~r75702-1
Severity: important

Hello,

I found a very annoy problem after installing chromium-browser.  That
is, once this package is installed, the Default Browser of Preferred Applications in Gnome no longer works.  No matter which browser I set to default, chromium takes the role all the time.  For example, click an url in the dialog of About Gnome will always launch chromium.  xdg-open command also launches chromium even gnome-www-browser and x-www-browser are set to other browsers.

Though chromium is very good browser, such a rude behavior is really
unpleasant.

Furthermore, a manually modification of mimeinfo.cache under
/usr/share/applications/ seems to be able solve the problem temporarily.

Thanks.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers proposed-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  chromium-inspector 10.0.648.114~r75702-1 page inspector for the chromium br
ii  libasound2         1.0.23-2.1            shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii  libbz2-1.0         1.0.5-6               high-quality block-sorting file co
ii  libc6              2.11.2-13             Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2          1.10.2-4              The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libcups2           1.4.6-1               Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - 
ii  libdbus-1-3        1.4.6-1               simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2   0.88-2.1              simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libevent-1.4-2     1.4.13-stable-1       An asynchronous event notification
ii  libexpat1          2.0.1-7               XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libfontconfig1     2.8.0-2.1             generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6       2.4.4-1               FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1            1:4.5.2-5             GCC support library
ii  libgconf2-4        2.32.1-2              GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgcrypt11        1.4.6-5               LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0       2.28.1-1+b1           The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0        2.20.1-2              The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libicu44           4.4.2-2               International Components for Unico
ii  libjpeg62          6b1-1                 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libnspr4-0d        4.8.7-2               NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d         3.12.9-2              Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpango1.0-0      1.28.3-2~sid1         Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0         1.2.44-1              PNG library - runtime
ii  libspeex1          1.2~rc1-1             The Speex codec runtime library
ii  libstdc++6         4.5.2-5               The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libvpx0            0.9.6-1               VP8 video codec (shared library)
ii  libx11-6           2:1.4.1-5             X11 client-side library
ii  libxdamage1        1:1.1.3-1             X11 damaged region extension libra
ii  libxext6           2:1.2.0-2             X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxml2            2.7.8.dfsg-2          GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1        1:0.9.6-1             X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxslt1.1         1.1.26-6              XSLT 1.0 processing library - runt
ii  libxss1            1:1.2.1-1             X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii  libxtst6           2:1.2.0-1             X11 Testing -- Record extension li
ii  xdg-utils          1.1.0~rc1-2           desktop integration utilities from
ii  zlib1g             1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3      compression library - runtime

chromium recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
pn  chromium-l10n                 <none>     (no description available)

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