Bug 430072

I'm surprised following symlinks isn't the default mimeopen behavior.  ??

Yeah, me too. I'll ask upstream.

Patrice, any word from mimeopen upstream regarding -L, following symlink behavior?

Reassigning (for now).

I have asked upstream some time ago, but didn't got any response.
I'll certainly retry after my vacations if I don't forget.

Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
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Patrice, ping?  any news movement on mimeopen -L usage/default?

I think I forgot to reask. I'll dot it soon.

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This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

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Reassigning to new package owner

Switching back, I'm not maintainer.

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mimeopen (from perl-File-MimeInfo package) does not use xdg-open (from xdg-utils). The no-follow behavior is default for mimeopen.

However I opened feature request <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=58575> at upstream.

If xdg-open users want consistent behavior over all xdg-utils back-ends, xdg-open code must be changed to reflect it:

$ grep -Hn -C5 mimeopen /usr/bin/xdg-open 
/usr/bin/xdg-open-426-            if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
/usr/bin/xdg-open-427-                exit_success
/usr/bin/xdg-open-428-            fi
/usr/bin/xdg-open-429-        fi
/usr/bin/xdg-open-430-
/usr/bin/xdg-open:431:        if mimeopen -v 2>/dev/null 1>&2; then
/usr/bin/xdg-open:432:            mimeopen -n "$file"
/usr/bin/xdg-open-433-            if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
/usr/bin/xdg-open-434-                exit_success
/usr/bin/xdg-open-435-            fi
/usr/bin/xdg-open-436-        fi
/usr/bin/xdg-open-437-    fi

Add `-L' option on line 431.

Reassigning to xdg-utils.

You agree mimeopen behavior is inconsistent, yet you insist that xdg-open be patched instead of mimeopen?

rebasing, +FutureFeature keyword so this doesn't get eol'd prior to resolution

(In reply to comment #15)
> You agree mimeopen behavior is inconsistent, yet you insist that xdg-open be
> patched instead of mimeopen?    

Exactly. The problem is xdg-open does not respect interface defined by underlying mimeopen (even if it is stupid). Thus it's a bug in xdg-open and xdg-open should be changed to resolve this bug report.

I cannot change mimeopen API because it would: divert from upstream and break third-party applications.

Alright, change pushed upstream, will be included in the next pkg update.

xdg-utils-1.0.2-20.20100709.fc13 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 13.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xdg-utils-1.0.2-20.20100709.fc13

xdg-utils-1.0.2-20.20100709.fc12 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 12.
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xdg-utils-1.0.2-20.20100709.fc12

xdg-utils-1.0.2-20.20100709.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update xdg-utils'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xdg-utils-1.0.2-20.20100709.fc12

xdg-utils-1.0.2-20.20100709.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update xdg-utils'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/xdg-utils-1.0.2-20.20100709.fc13

xdg-utils-1.0.2-20.20100709.fc13 has been pushed to the Fedora 13 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

xdg-utils-1.0.2-20.20100709.fc12 has been pushed to the Fedora 12 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

perl-File-MimeInfo upstream has decided to follow symlinks by default since version 0.16.