Public bug reported:
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
g...@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
g...@nglap:~$
** Affects: xdg-utils (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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xdg-email fails when thunderbird replaces evolution
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/465866
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