Debian Bug report logs - #497491
icedove: Icedove inappropriately sets file-/MIME-type associations in .desktop database

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin@geekspace.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: icedove: Icedove inappropriately sets file-/MIME-type associations in .desktop database

Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:47:09 -0400

Package: icedove
Version: 2.0.0.16-1
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks unrelated software
File: /usr/share/applications/icedove.desktop

Icedove lists several MIME-types in 
/usr/share/applications/icedove.desktop, which ends up associating files 
of those types (e.g.: HTML, GIF, JPEG, PNG) with Icedove when the 
"update-desktop-database" command is run. This doesn't seem appropriate, 
since icedove is not actually able to open these files: when I 
double-click on a JPEG file in Nautilus, for example, Icedove launches 
and shows me my e-mail and *not* the image that I selected.

It also looks like icedove specifying MIME-handlers is accidental, 
rather than being intentional, because icedove's installation-scripts 
do not run "update-desktop-database"--this means that installing icedove 
will not immediately update the file-associations, but they'll instead 
change when another (unrelated) package-installation/-upgrade does run 
"update-desktop-database".

If I remove the `MimeType=' declaration from
/usr/share/applications/icedove.desktop and run
"update-desktop-database", my desktop operates sanely again.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages icedove depends on:
ii  debianutils            2.30              Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  fontconfig             2.6.0-1           generic font configuration library
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.22.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                  2.7-13            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2              1.6.4-6           The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libfontconfig1         2.6.0-1           generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6           2.3.7-2           FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgcc1                1:4.3.1-9         GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.16.4-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.12.11-3         The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libhunspell-1.2-0      1.2.6-1           spell checker and morphological an
ii  libjpeg62              6b-14             The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libnspr4-0d            4.7.1-3           NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii  libnss3-1d             3.12.0-5          Network Security Service libraries
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.20.5-1          Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpng12-0             1.2.27-1          PNG library - runtime
ii  libstdc++6             4.3.1-9           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6               2:1.1.4-2         X11 client-side library
ii  libxft2                2.1.12-3          FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxinerama1           2:1.0.3-2         X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.4-2         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6                 1:1.0.5-3         X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  psmisc                 22.6-1            Utilities that use the proc filesy
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-12 compression library - runtime

icedove recommends no packages.

Versions of packages icedove suggests:
pn  icedove-gnome-support         <none>     (no description available)
pn  latex-xft-fonts               <none>     (no description available)
ii  libthai0                      0.1.9-4    Thai language support library

-- debconf information:
* icedove/browser: GNOME

Message #10 received at 497491@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <he@debian.org>

To: control@bugs.debian.org

Cc: 497491@bugs.debian.org

Subject: severity of 497491 is grave

Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:22:21 +0200

# Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.28
#please remove image/g
severity 497491 grave

Message #19 received at 497491@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alexander Sack <asac@jwsdot.com>

To: Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <he@debian.org>, 497491@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#497491: severity of 497491 is grave

Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:04:16 +0200

severity normal
thanks

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 10:22:21PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.28
> #please remove image/g
> severity 497491 grave
> 

how can this be grave?


 - Alexander

Message #26 received at 497491@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alexander Sack <asac@debian.org>

To: Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt <marc@marcbrockschmidt.de>

Cc: 497491@bugs.debian.org, control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#497491: severity of 497491 is grave

Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:11:28 +0200

tag 497491 + pending
thanks

fixed in rev 88 on packaging branch:
  https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~mozillateam/thunderbird/icedove-2.0.0.x/


On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 07:33:21PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> severity 497491 serious
> thanks
> 
> Alexander Sack <asac@jwsdot.com> writes:
> > On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 10:22:21PM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
> >> # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.10.28
> >> #please remove image/g
> >> severity 497491 grave
> > how can this be grave?
> 
> It breaks the mime/application links when installing. Losing "just click
> in nautilus and get my photo displayed" after installing icedove is 
> <RM hat>a release critical bug</RM hat>
> 
> Marc



 - Alexander

Message #33 received at 497491-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Michael Casadevall <sonicmctails@gmail.com>

To: 497491-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#497491: fixed in icedove 2.0.0.17-1

Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:17:10 +0000

Source: icedove
Source-Version: 2.0.0.17-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
icedove, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

icedove-dbg_2.0.0.17-1_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/i/icedove/icedove-dbg_2.0.0.17-1_amd64.deb
icedove-dev_2.0.0.17-1_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/i/icedove/icedove-dev_2.0.0.17-1_amd64.deb
icedove-gnome-support_2.0.0.17-1_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/i/icedove/icedove-gnome-support_2.0.0.17-1_amd64.deb
icedove_2.0.0.17-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/i/icedove/icedove_2.0.0.17-1.diff.gz
icedove_2.0.0.17-1.dsc
  to pool/main/i/icedove/icedove_2.0.0.17-1.dsc
icedove_2.0.0.17-1_amd64.deb
  to pool/main/i/icedove/icedove_2.0.0.17-1_amd64.deb
icedove_2.0.0.17.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/i/icedove/icedove_2.0.0.17.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 497491@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Michael Casadevall <sonicmctails@gmail.com> (supplier of updated icedove package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:07:20 -0400
Source: icedove
Binary: icedove icedove-gnome-support icedove-dbg icedove-dev
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 2.0.0.17-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Alexander Sack <asac@debian.org>
Changed-By: Michael Casadevall <sonicmctails@gmail.com>
Description: 
 icedove    - free/unbranded thunderbird mail/news/rss clone
 icedove-dbg - Debug Symbols for Icedove
 icedove-dev - Development files for Icedove
 icedove-gnome-support - Support for Gnome in Icedove
Closes: 497491 500721
Changes: 
 icedove (2.0.0.17-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream security/stability update (v.2.0.0.17), Closes: #500721
     * MFSA 2008-37 aka CVE-2008-0016 - UTF-8 URL stack buffer overflow
     * MFSA 2008-38 aka CVE-2008-3835 - nsXMLDocument::OnChannelRedirect()
       same-origin violation
     * MFSA 2008-41 aka CVE-2008-4058, CVE-2008-4059, CVE-2008-4060 - Privilege
       escalation via XPCnativeWrapper pollution
     * MFSA 2008-42 aka CVE-2008-4061, CVE-2008-4062, CVE-2008-4063,
       CVE-2008-4064 - Crashes with evidence of memory corruption
       (rv:1.9.0.2/1.8.1.17)
     * MFSA 2008-43 aka CVE-2008-4065, CVE-2008-4066 - BOM characters, low
       surrogates stripped from JavaScript before execution
     * MFSA 2008-44 aka CVE-2008-4067, CVE-2008-4068 - resource: traversal
       vulnerabilities
     * MFSA 2008-46 aka CVE-2008-4070 -  Heap overflow when canceling newsgroup
       message
 .
   [ Michael Casadevall <sonicmctails@gmail.com> ]
   * debian/control:
     - Changed maintainer to Ubuntu Mozillateam
     - Added Uploaders to the team
     - Set DM-Upload-Allowed
     - Bumped standards version to 3.8.0
 .
   [ Alexander Sack <asac@debian.org> ]
   * Closes: #497491 - Icedove inappropriately sets file-/MIME-type
     associations in .desktop database; we drop the Mime-Type= entry
     from debian/icedove.desktop
     - update debian/icedove.desktop
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