*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 515386 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/515386
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: xdg-utils (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/465866
Title:
xdg-email fails when thunderbird replaces evolution
Status in “xdg-utils” package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Bug description:
Binary package hint: xdg-utils
xdg-email is required by some features of bazaar (bzr). However, xdg-email
seems to be tied tightly to evolution: if I create an e-mail account with
thunderbird, it does not use it. (It tries to make me set up evolution.) If
I remove evolution, it then simply fails with a warning message
$ xdg-email
Error showing url: Failed to execute child process "evolution" (No such file
or directory)
$
Ideally, this would use /etc/alternatives or some technique to adapt
to whatever e-mail client is installed and configured. This failure
is *especially* odd because the xdg-utils package neither recommends
nor even suggests evolution.
Also, it's description says "Open the user's preferred email
client..." and, well, my preferred client is thunderbird. At a
minimum, you should change the description to say "Opens Ubuntu's
recommended email client..."
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 9.10
Release: 9.10
gpk@nglap:~$
$ apt-cache policy xdg-utils
xdg-utils:
Installed: 1.0.2-6.1
Candidate: 1.0.2-6.1
Version table:
*** 1.0.2-6.1 0
500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
gpk@nglap:~$
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