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and subject line Bug#1115732: fixed in gnome-session 49.0-2
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regarding gnome-session-common: [49.x] Debian customizations to default apps
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Package: gnome-session-common
Version: 49.0-1
Severity: serious
Tags: experimental
After upgrading gnome-session (and gnome-shell and gdm) to 49.x, my
system's default web browser changes from Firefox ESR to GNOME Web
(Epiphany). This seems like something we should resolve before
re-uploading gnome-session-common to unstable, at least for Firefox.
Upstream, gnome-mimeapps.list is generated as a side effect of the "GNOME
OS" images, using the MIME types for which they advertise support -
which we can't do in Debian, because having Build-Depends on every GNOME
app would be fragile, but we can certainly regenerate the file
periodically and commit the result. I don't think there is a DFSG
problem here - the file is in a form that is entirely reasonable to
edit, even if not really intended to be edited.
A simplistic way to do this would be to patch data/gnome-mimeapps.list,
ignoring the comment about how it isn't intended to be edited directly;
or we could stop installing upstream's data/gnome-mimeapps.list and
bring back our Debian-specific version.
A way that might scale better would be to use
<https://gitlab.gnome.org/heftig/gnome-mimeapps/> or maybe
<https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-build-meta/-/tree/master/files/gnome-mimeapps>,
either of which would have to be run in a container that has all the
relevant apps installed (or at least their .desktop files).
Or, since the only thing that
https://gitlab.gnome.org/heftig/gnome-mimeapps/ reads from the .desktop
files seems to be their MimeType list, perhaps we could adapt that
program to read that information from AppStream metadata? For example
/var/lib/app-info/yaml/deb.debian.org_debian_dists_forky_main_dep11_Components-amd64.yml.gz
has entries like:
---
Type: desktop-application
ID: firefox-esr.desktop
...
Launchable:
desktop-id:
- firefox-esr.desktop
Provides:
mediatypes:
- text/html
...
and
---
Type: desktop-application
ID: org.gnome.Showtime
...
Launchable:
desktop-id:
- org.gnome.Showtime.desktop
...
Provides:
mediatypes:
- video/3gp
- video/3gpp
...
which looks like all the information we need?
smcv
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Source: gnome-session
Source-Version: 49.0-2
Done: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gnome-session, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
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 [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Simon McVittie <[email protected]> (supplier of updated gnome-session package)
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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 18:34:59 +0100
Source: gnome-session
Architecture: source
Version: 49.0-2
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian GNOME Maintainers
<[email protected]>
Changed-By: Simon McVittie <[email protected]>
Closes: 1115732
Changes:
gnome-session (49.0-2) experimental; urgency=medium
.
* Team upload
* Merge packaging changes from unstable
- d/copyright: Don't quote the FSF's former postal address here
- d/control: Remove Rules-Requires-Root, unnecessary since trixie
- d/control: Standards-Version: 4.7.2 (no changes required)
* d/gnome-mimeapps/: Add gnome-mimeapps script by Jan Alexander Steffens,
as a local mechanism to regenerate MIME type associations.
(See debian/README.source for details of how to update this.)
* d/mimeapps/*.desktop: List MIME types supported by preinstalled and
extra GNOME apps.
This will allow us to generate our own customized gnome-mimeapps.list
using d/gnome-mimeapps/, without actually needing all of these apps
to be installed.
(See debian/README.source for details of how to update these with the
latest available information.)
* d/mimeapps/: Add machinery to generate a customized gnome-mimeapps.list.
This combines cached MIME type information from
debian/mimeapps/*.desktop with Debian configuration from
debian/mimeapps/debian.conf to generate a gnome-mimeapps.list that
fits Debian preferences better than upstream's.
(Closes: #1115732)
* d/mimeapps/debian.conf: Set up Debian preferences (see also the
meta-gnome3 source package):
- Prefer Firefox ESR, Firefox or Chromium for web browsing, if
installed, as a higher priority than GNOME Web (Epiphany).
- Prefer Loupe for image viewing, if installed.
If not available, try eog or Shotwell, which were our previous
defaults, before falling back to anything else.
- Prioritize image viewers higher than web browsers.
If Loupe isn't installed for whatever reason, we'd prefer JPEGs
to open in eog or Shotwell rather than Firefox.
- Prioritize GNOME Software's .deb installer higher than unpacking
the .deb with file-roller, which is rarely what is wanted.
- Add apps that are part of the GNOME metapackage:
LibreOffice, Evolution, file-roller, Seahorse.
- Add apps that are Suggests of the GNOME metapackage:
Goobox, Sound Juicer, Rhythmbox.
- Add apps that were formerly GNOME defaults as alternatives to the
current defaults, if installed: Evince, Totem, gedit, AbiWord.
- Add Thunderbird as a lower priority for email than Evolution,
if installed.
- Add gnome-disk-image-writer.desktop (from gnome-disk-utility) as
a handler for optical media images, etc.
- Avoid suggesting GNOME Disk Usage Analyzer (Baobab) for directories:
if Nautilus is not installed, but some other file manager is,
then we want directories to open in the other file manager.
- Avoid suggesting GNOME Builder for HTML source:
if none of our preferred web browsers are installed, but some other
web browser is, then we want HTML to open in the other web browser.
- Avoid suggesting LibreOffice Writer or AbiWord for plain text files:
they can open plain text files, but they're word processors, not
text editors.
- Prefer Firefox and Thunderbird Snap apps over the .deb if installed.
This matches our historical defaults, although that might be
something we should reconsider now that we have better control.
I don't have these apps installed, so I have assumed that they handle
the same MIME types as the corresponding .deb.
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