[Pkg-mc-devel] Bug#544054: mc: Mc should not exclusively suggest xpdf
Andreas Tille
tillea at rki.de
Fri Aug 28 12:36:39 UTC 2009
Package: mc
Version: 2:4.7.0-pre1-3
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
Hi,
there is no reason to prefer xpdf over other packages that provide
pdf-viewer. So the relevant piece of debian/control should rather read
- Suggests: mime-support, perl, zip, unzip, bzip2, links | w3m | lynx, arj, file, xpdf, dbview, odt2txt
+ Suggests: mime-support, perl, zip, unzip, bzip2, links | w3m | lynx, arj, file, xpdf-reader | pdf-viewer, dbview, odt2txt
Moreover the config file /etc/mc/mc.ext should not mention xpdf
explicitely but rather relay on the mailcap entry. This could be
accomplished by using the following patch:
--- mc.ext.orig 2009-08-09 15:07:00.000000000 +0200
+++ mc.ext 2009-08-28 14:20:54.000000000 +0200
@@ -468,7 +468,7 @@
# PDF
type/^PDF
- Open=(xpdf %f &)
+ Open=(see %f &)
#Open=(acroread %f &)
#Open=(ghostview %f &)
View=%view{ascii} pdftotext %f -
To make sure that this really works in any case I would suggest to
Recommend mime-support rather than suggesting it. I'll leave the final
decision to you as the maintainer but if you ask me some other Suggested
packages might deserve a Recommends rather than only a Suggests.
Kind regards and thanks for maintaining mc
Andreas.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (501, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable'), (5, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages mc depends on:
ii libc6 2.9-23 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libglib2.0-0 2.20.4-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgpm2 1.20.4-3.2 General Purpose Mouse - shared lib
ii libslang2 2.1.4-3 The S-Lang programming library - r
Versions of packages mc recommends:
ii imagemagick 7:6.5.1.0-1.1 image manipulation programs
Versions of packages mc suggests:
pn arj <none> (no description available)
ii bzip2 1.0.5-3 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii dbview 1.0.4-1 View dBase III files
ii file 5.03-1 Determines file type using "magic"
ii links 2.2-1+b1 Web browser running in text mode
ii lynx 2.8.7rel.1-1 Text-mode WWW Browser (transitiona
ii mime-support 3.46-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
pn odt2txt <none> (no description available)
ii perl 5.10.0-25 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii unzip 6.0-1 De-archiver for .zip files
ii w3m 0.5.2-2.1 WWW browsable pager with excellent
pn xpdf <none> (no description available)
ii zip 3.0-1 Archiver for .zip files
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