Bug 1161374

Summary:	evince refuses to open files with ':' in name
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ralf Corsepius <rc040203>
Component:	evince	Assignee:	Marek Kašík <mkasik>
Status:	CLOSED EOL	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	22	CC:	jan.vesely, mkasik
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Description Ralf Corsepius 2014-11-07 03:28:24 UTC

Description of problem:
evince refuses to open files with ':' (colon) in name.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
evince-3.10.3-1.fc20.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Take a pdf and rename its filename into something containing a ':' (colon):
cp xxxx.pdf "foo: bar.pdf"
2. Try to open it:
evince "foo: bar.pdf"


Actual results:
evince fails to open this file and raise a error dialog, telling:

"Unable to open document “file:///tmp/evince-7189/document.9VIMOX- bar.pdf.”
The specified location is not supported


Expected results:
evince to open this file.


Additional info:
acroread smoothly opens such files.

Comment 1 Fedora End Of Life 2015-05-29 13:14:32 UTC

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Comment 2 Ralf Corsepius 2015-06-10 13:33:11 UTC

Bug is still present in fc21.

I'd suggest to remove evince from Fedora, because the Fedora maintainer apparently is not maintaining this package and/or to launch an AWOL process against him, because he seems to have quit Fedora.

Marek?

Comment 3 Marek Kašík 2015-06-10 13:43:47 UTC

I've posted a patch here: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=676626 few months ago. It was not accepted yet, so I haven't decided whether this is a glib2 or evince bug yet.

Comment 4 Fedora End Of Life 2015-11-04 11:30:35 UTC

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plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' 
to a later Fedora version.

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bugs or makes them obsolete.

Comment 5 Ralf Corsepius 2015-11-04 15:45:16 UTC

Bug is still present on fc22.

Comment 6 Marek Kašík 2016-01-06 12:09:15 UTC

*** Bug 1248086 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 12:22:37 UTC

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