[snap] cannot send file from Nautilus

[Francois Thirioux]

* Impact
Nautilus->sendto fails to use the thunderbird snap command

* Test case
On a Ubuntu default session
$ snap install thunderbird
$ nautilus
$ right click on a file and select the sendto entry

-> thunderbird should be started with a composer dialog and the selected attachment included

* Regression potential
The patch removes an old hack that parsed and changed the thunderbird command, verify that thunderbird is still correctly start using it from different source (snap, deb, flatpak?)

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TB 78.5.0 snap
Focal

Nothing happens when I right-click on a file (using Nautilus) from my home and choose 'send to'. I did not have such a problem using TB deb.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

There is some legacy code in nautilus-sendto which doesn't handle well the Exec command including an env variable

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus-sendto - 3.8.6-3.1

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nautilus-sendto (3.8.6-3.1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/gitlab_thunderbird_cmd.patch:
    - remove an old workaround for thunderbird, it's not useful anymore and
      is creating problem with the snap cmd (lp: #1904859)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 23 Nov 2020 20:31:53 +0100

[Francois Thirioux (fthx)]

Ok Sébastien, I confirm it works well too in my Focal.

Please consider another TB snap send-to bug here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1898206

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Francois, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nautilus-sendto into groovy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus-sendto/3.8.6-3ubuntu0.20.10.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-groovy to verification-done-groovy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-groovy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello Francois, or anyone else affected,

Accepted nautilus-sendto into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus-sendto/3.8.6-3ubuntu0.20.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Please include information about what testing has been performed as part of the verification and on which versions of the package, as per the SRU policy. Thank you!

[Francois Thirioux (fthx)]

Focal up to date.

apt policy nautilus-sendto
nautilus-sendto:
  Installé : 3.8.6-3ubuntu0.20.04.1
  Candidat : 3.8.6-3ubuntu0.20.04.1
 Table de version :
 *** 3.8.6-3ubuntu0.20.04.1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     3.8.6-3 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages

1) open nautilus
2) right-click on a pdf, "send to" item in menu
3) a thunderbird (snap version here) compose pop-up appears
4) verify attachment is present in compose window
5) send a mail to myself
6) check that the attachment is ok in incoming mail

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus-sendto - 3.8.6-3ubuntu0.20.04.1

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nautilus-sendto (3.8.6-3ubuntu0.20.04.1) focal; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/gitlab_thunderbird_cmd.patch:
    - remove an old workaround for thunderbird, it's not useful anymore and
      is creating problem with the snap cmd (lp: #1904859)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 23 Nov 2020 20:31:53 +0100

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for nautilus-sendto has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The 3.8.6-3ubuntu0.20.10.1 update to 20.10 also fixes sending attachement using the thunderbird snap

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package nautilus-sendto - 3.8.6-3ubuntu0.20.10.1

---------------
nautilus-sendto (3.8.6-3ubuntu0.20.10.1) groovy; urgency=medium

  * debian/patches/gitlab_thunderbird_cmd.patch:
    - remove an old workaround for thunderbird, it's not useful anymore and
      is creating problem with the snap cmd (lp: #1904859)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 23 Nov 2020 20:31:53 +0100