Package: papers Version: 48.3-1 Severity: important Tags: patch X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
Dear Maintainer, Opening PDF files located on GVFS mounts provided by GNOME Online Accounts (for example, Google Drive) fails in Papers on Debian 13 (Trixie). The same files can be opened successfully with Evince. What led up to the situation? I use GNOME Online Accounts to access files stored in Google Drive. PDF files are exposed through GVFS and can be accessed from the GNOME file manager. What exactly did you do? I attempted to open a PDF stored in Google Drive using Papers. I investigated the issue and found that it has already been fixed upstream by commit: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/Incubator/papers/-/commit/d1ea5f93b5465386d4bfb548f7fe6f1b8469cdfb This fix is included in Papers 48.7 and later. To verify that this is the correct fix, I backported the single upstream commit to the Debian 13 package (48.3-1), rebuilt the package on Debian 13 using sbuild, installed it, and tested it. What was the outcome? With the unmodified Debian package (48.3-1), Papers is unable to open PDFs from GVFS-backed locations such as Google Drive. After applying the upstream patch, Papers opens the same PDFs correctly. What outcome did you expect instead? I expected Papers to open PDFs from GVFS mounts in the same way as local files and consistently with Evince. The attached debdiff contains only the backport of the upstream fix and is proposed as a candidate for inclusion in a future Debian 13 (Trixie) stable update. Thank you, Eduardo Leggiero -- System Information: Debian Release: 13.6 APT prefers stable APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 7.1.3+deb13-amd64 (SMP w/14 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages papers depends on: ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.40.0-5 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 48.0-1 ii libadwaita-1-0 1.7.6-1~deb13u1 ii libc6 2.41-12+deb13u3 ii libgcc-s1 14.2.0-19 ii libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0 2.42.12+dfsg-4+deb13u1 ii libglib2.0-0t64 2.84.4-3~deb13u3 ii libgraphene-1.0-0 1.10.8-5 ii libgtk-4-1 4.18.6+ds-2 ii libnautilus-extension4 48.3-2 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.56.3-1 ii libppsdocument-4.0-5 48.3-1 ii libppsview-4.0-4 48.3-1 ii papers-common 48.3-1 ii shared-mime-info 2.4-5+b2 papers recommends no packages. Versions of packages papers suggests: ii gvfs 1.57.2-2+deb13u1 pn nautilus-sendto <none> ii poppler-data 0.4.12-1 pn unrar <none> -- no debconf information
diff -Nru papers-48.3/debian/changelog papers-48.3/debian/changelog --- papers-48.3/debian/changelog 2025-06-06 19:54:42.000000000 +0100 +++ papers-48.3/debian/changelog 2026-07-30 09:44:31.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +papers (48.3-1+gvfs1) trixie; urgency=medium + + * Backport GVFS Google Drive fix. + + -- Eduardo Leggiero <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 09:44:31 +0100 + papers (48.3-1) unstable; urgency=medium * New upstream bugfix release diff -Nru papers-48.3/debian/patches/fix-opening-pdfs-from-gvfs.patch papers-48.3/debian/patches/fix-opening-pdfs-from-gvfs.patch --- papers-48.3/debian/patches/fix-opening-pdfs-from-gvfs.patch 1970-01-01 01:00:00.000000000 +0100 +++ papers-48.3/debian/patches/fix-opening-pdfs-from-gvfs.patch 2026-07-30 09:34:29.000000000 +0100 @@ -0,0 +1,84 @@ +diff --git a/shell/src/window.rs b/shell/src/window.rs +index 46d7199..c8a2b7c 100644 +--- a/shell/src/window.rs ++++ b/shell/src/window.rs +@@ -993,22 +993,69 @@ mod imp { + #[weak(rename_to = obj)] + self, + async move { +- if path.is_none() { ++ // Check if the file comes from a remote GVFS backend (like Google Drive, SMB, SFTP, etc.) ++ // These usually need to be copied locally to avoid access or seek issues. ++ let is_gvfs = file ++ .uri_scheme() ++ .map(|scheme| { ++ // List of GVFS backends that should be copied locally: ++ // - Network: smb, ftp, sftp, dav/davs, nfs ++ // - Cloud: google-drive, onedrive ++ // - Mobile: afc (ios), mtp (android) ++ // - Other: afp (Apple Filing Protocol) ++ matches!( ++ scheme.as_str(), ++ "afc" ++ | "afp" ++ | "dav" ++ | "davs" ++ | "ftp" ++ | "google-drive" ++ | "mtp" ++ | "nfs" ++ | "onedrive" ++ | "sftp" ++ | "smb" ++ ) ++ }) ++ .unwrap_or(false); ++ ++ // If the file doesn't have a normal local path or if it's remote file, ++ // then copy it locally before opening to avoid permission or access problems. ++ if path.is_none() || is_gvfs { + obj.load_remote_file(file.as_ref()).await; + } else { +- // source_file is probably local, but make sure it's seekable +- // before loading it directly. ++ // File appears to be local, but verify it's actually seekable. ++ // Some FUSE-backed GVFS filesystems may provide paths but still have seekability issues + let result = file.read_future(glib::Priority::DEFAULT).await; + +- if let Ok(stream) = result { +- if !stream.can_seek() { +- return obj.load_remote_file(file.as_ref()).await; ++ match result { ++ Ok(stream) => { ++ // Check If the stream doesn’t support seeking at all, then treat it as remote. ++ if !stream.can_seek() { ++ return obj.load_remote_file(file.as_ref()).await; ++ } ++ ++ // Verify that G_SEEK_END works because ++ // some GVFS backends claim to support seeking, but fail when using G_SEEK_END. ++ let seekable = stream.upcast_ref::<gio::Seekable>(); ++ if seekable ++ .seek(0, glib::SeekType::End, gio::Cancellable::NONE) ++ .is_err() ++ { ++ return obj.load_remote_file(file.as_ref()).await; ++ } ++ ++ // If stream is properly seekable, load directly ++ obj.loader_view.set_fraction(-1_f64); ++ obj.set_mode(WindowRunMode::LoaderView); ++ load_job.scheduler_push_job(papers_view::JobPriority::PriorityNone); ++ } ++ Err(_) => { ++ // If it failed to open stream, try copying to local ++ obj.load_remote_file(file.as_ref()).await; + } + } +- +- obj.loader_view.set_fraction(-1_f64); +- obj.set_mode(WindowRunMode::LoaderView); +- load_job.scheduler_push_job(papers_view::JobPriority::PriorityNone); + } + } + )); diff -Nru papers-48.3/debian/patches/series papers-48.3/debian/patches/series --- papers-48.3/debian/patches/series 2025-06-06 19:54:42.000000000 +0100 +++ papers-48.3/debian/patches/series 2026-07-30 09:36:24.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ meson.build-fix-build-for-Debian.patch shell-rs-build-re-generate-bindings-before-building-exe.patch relax-deps.patch +fix-opening-pdfs-from-gvfs.patch
