/etc/mailcap is not updated

[Martin Stjernholm]

Binary package hint: acroread

With the acroread package installed, I get no entries in /etc/mailcap to associate application/pdf etc with the acroread viewer. Some programs use that rather than the xdg stuff to find apps, and they won't fire up acroread for pdf's as they ought to. One example of such a program is Gnus in Emacs 23.

Ubuntu is Lucid, acroread is 9.3.2-karmic1.

[danmb (danmbox)]

Google Chrome uses xdg-open, which in turn consults mailcap. So please fix this bug.

The fact that xdg-open DOES NOT use xdg-mime (which would function correctly and ignore mailcap) is another bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdg-utils/+bug/220765

(upstream patch has been available for a long time)

[Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)]

Hi, a new acroread release (0.9.4) is available for update, could you give it a try and tell us if the problem persists?
If you still have this bug please set back the status to "new"
thanks

[Martin Stjernholm (msub)]

I don't know which version numbering system you're referring to, but the bug is still there in the current acroread in quantal/partner, version 9.5.4-1quantal1.