[aur-requests] [PRQ#34934] Deletion Request for run-mailcap

[Erik Johnson]

This is still a useful package, as it provides a useful utility to open
attachments in Mutt in external applications, based on mime type.

I will update it the package, not delete it.

On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 7:22 AM <notify at aur.archlinux.org> wrote:

> m040601 [1] filed a deletion request for run-mailcap [2]:
>
> This is a very old PKGBUILD that references a obsolete 2014 Ubuntu
> version. It should be removed. It only confuses archlinux users
> looking for mailcap related tools.
>
>
> ````
> Conflicts:      mime-support
> ````
>
> There is no PKGBUILD "mime-support" anymore.
>
>
> ````
> Upstream URL:   http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/mime-support
> ````
>
> references a 2014, Ubuntu 14.10 (Utopic Unicorn) version.
>
> And leads to a non existing page,
>
> ````
> Error
> two or more packages specified (mime-support utopic)
> ````
>
>
>
> As of 2022 there is no "run-mailcap" package in recent versions of
> Ubuntu. The only thing related to "mailcap" in Ubuntu is, according
> to, https://packages.ubuntu.com/ a package called "mailcap",
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/source/jammy/mailcap
>
> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/m040601/
> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/run-mailcap/



-- 

-Erik

"For me, it is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to
persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."  -- Carl Sagan
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