This is ridiculous. This bug is there for ages, and all that has to be done is to add a post-install hook that removes that file after it was installed from the 3-rd party repo, or a pre-install hook that removes it from the package.
I created a script that hopefully eases this process of repeating these steps every time java is upgraded to another version where this bug isn’t fixed. If I made a mistake in the script, please tell me so and I’ll fix it. Link to script: https://gist.github.com/1250868 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to shared-mime-info in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/309778 Title: KDE always associates *.jar with the zip mime type Status in “dolphin” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “krusader” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in “shared-mime-info” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Status in “sun-java6” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: krusader Krusader, dolphin and other KDE applications incorrectly map the application/x-jar mime type. Gnome and XFCE and other non-KDE applications correctly interpret *.jar as application/x-jar, but not KDE. I have followed all of the KDE instructions including: http://www.krusader.org/handbook/faq_usage.html#faqu_jar http://www.krusader.org/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=9166 And have scoured my mimelnk and other *.desktop files and have verified that *.jar is only associated with Java and never zip. KDE incorrectly treats *.jar as application/zip anyways. I have verified that krusader has no jar or java-archive or any thing else in the karc protocol and have verified that *.jar is mapped correctly under the KDE4 system settings application (file mapping). KDE still stubbornly treats *.jar as a zip file. As a result I cannot launch java applications packaged as jar files without running it by hand. I have exhausted google and all other resources, no one has replied to my launchpad question (https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/51806) in over a month and have come to the conclusion that it is probably a bug. Versions: xubuntu intrepid krusader 2.0~svn6078-1ubuntu1 dolphin 4:4.1.3-0ubuntu1~intrepid1 systemsettings 4:4.1.3-0ubuntu1~intrepid1 kdebase-data 4:4.1.3-0ubuntu1~intrepid1 Sorry if it is not a bug, but I just cannot find any reason why KDE would map *.jar as a zip file. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dolphin/+bug/309778/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
