With Sylpheed-claws 0.8.11, attaching something to a mail you compose always gives it the mime-type "application/octet-stream" . It should use a file "mime.types" in /etc to assign mime types, but that does not work out of the box. The ebuild uses a patch to get sylpheed to use the "shared mime info" database , but this does apparently also not work properly. A fix would be to disable the patch and use mime-types as a dependency. "emerge mime-type" will put the "mime.types" file in /etc. Sylpheed-claws will use it when the patch is not applied, hence giving proper mime type functionality. This report is based on my own tests and experiences on 2 different fresh installations.
Strange if I remove the patch I got the same behaviour. The patch itself just add the /usr/share/mime/globs to the file sylph looks into. seems that the issue exists but is completely unrelated to the patch
I removed the line in the ebuild where the patch is applied emerged mime-types emerged sylpheed-claws and it works fine now. (BTW the normal sylpheed works properly with a patch applied.)
Does it happen on every -claws version
reemerge please, now it works as should
Sorry... just did: emerge sync emerge sylpheed-claws Mimetypes are still broken. I'll rip out the patch line again to get it working
maybe you rsync from slow syncing mirror, please rsync again and please check that the patch has the following line:: + while (*p && (isspace(*p)||(*p=='*')||(*p=='.'))) p++;
I am glad to inform you that it now DOES work!! Hurray to bugfixing!
ok, closing it then
