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

[Erik Johnson]

The package has been updated to 3.70. In addition, I updated the package
description to clarify that the package provides the run-mailcap script.
This should address any "confusion".

Please withdraw the deletion request.

On Sun, May 29, 2022 at 8:30 AM Erik Johnson <palehose at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>


-- 

-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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