Bug #10571

The 'application/pgp-keys' MIME type has bad application associations

Added by anonym 2015-11-17 15:25:43 . Updated 2015-11-18 08:40:27 .

Status:
Resolved
Priority:
High
Assignee:
Category:
Target version:
Tails_2.0
Start date:
2015-11-17
Due date:
% Done:

100%

Feature Branch:
Type of work:
Code
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Starter:
Affected tool:
Deliverable for:
269

Description

E.g. .key files are associated with gedit in the browser, and Archive Manager in GNOME. Because of the former, the ‘Importing an OpenPGP key from a website’ scenario is broken in Tails/Jessie since it expects the browser to want to open .key files with “Import Key”.

Subtasks

Related issues

Related to Tails - Bug #10889: shared-mime-info associates .key files with LibreOffice Writer in GNOME Files Resolved 2016-01-09
Related to Tails - Bug #15213: Tails signing key can't be imported from Seahorse with the default key files filter Resolved 2018-01-22
Blocks Tails - Feature #7563: Update the automated test suite for Jessie ISO images Resolved 2014-11-26 2016-01-15

History

#1 Updated by anonym 2015-11-17 15:26:02

  • blocks Feature #7563: Update the automated test suite for Jessie ISO images added

#2 Updated by anonym 2015-11-17 15:26:21

  • blocks #8538 added

#3 Updated by anonym 2015-11-17 15:26:36

  • blocks #8668 added

#4 Updated by anonym 2015-11-17 15:26:47

  • Target version set to Tails_1.8

#5 Updated by intrigeri 2015-11-18 03:22:59

  • Assignee set to intrigeri
  • Priority changed from Normal to High
  • Deliverable for set to 269

I will try with a newer shared-mime-info.

#6 Updated by intrigeri 2015-11-18 03:23:05

  • blocked by deleted (#8538)

#7 Updated by intrigeri 2015-11-18 06:09:33

Probably not relevant, but on current sid I see:

$ mimetype  wiki/src/tails-signing.key
wiki/src/tails-signing.key: application/x-iwork-keynote-sffkey
$ mimetype --debug -a wiki/src/tails-signing.key
> Data dirs are: /home/intrigeri/.local/share, /usr/share/gnome, /usr/local/share, /usr/share
> Checking inode type
> Checking globs for basename 'tails-signing.key'
> Checking for extension '.key'
wiki/src/tails-signing.key: application/x-iwork-keynote-sffkey
> Checking all magic rules
> Value "-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----" at offset 36 matches at /usr/share/mime/magic line 337
wiki/src/tails-signing.key: application/pgp-keys
> File exists, trying default method
wiki/src/tails-signing.key: text/plain

And on current feature/jessie, the file manager says that /usr/share/doc/tails/website/tails-signing.key is “Apple Keynote 5 presentation (application/x-iwork-keynote-sffkey)”, which indeed opens with Archive Manager by default.

So I’m not sure it’s a problem of associating application/pgp-keys with a particular application, it seems rather like it’s a matter of detecting the correct MIME type to start with, no?

#8 Updated by intrigeri 2015-11-18 07:04:56

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/tree/NEWS says that shared-mime-info 1.3 “Add Apple Keynote 5 mime-type”. On Tails 1.7 we’re installing 1.3-1~bpo70+1, and in the file manager I see the same results as those reported above on Jessie. I think this confirms that I was on the wrong track: the browser is passed the correct MIME type, but indeed the association between that MIME type and Seahorse is broken on Jessie. anonym was right :)

#9 Updated by intrigeri 2015-11-18 07:50:42

  • Status changed from Confirmed to In Progress
  • % Done changed from 0 to 20

The application we want in /usr/share/applications/seahorse-pgp-keys.desktop and on current feature/jessie:

$ grep pgp-keys /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
application/pgp-keys=seahorse-pgp-keys.desktop;

… which sounds right.

Anyway, manually adding application/pgp-keys=seahorse-pgp-keys.desktop to /etc/gnome/defaults.list solves the problem. I’m going to do that and spend some reasonable amount of time reproducing / reporting the problem where it should be.

#10 Updated by intrigeri 2015-11-18 08:31:57

  • Status changed from In Progress to Resolved
  • % Done changed from 20 to 100

Applied in changeset commit:ee418a6a7abac4ebf932c396a0a28b327c954002.

#11 Updated by intrigeri 2015-11-18 08:40:27

  • Assignee deleted (intrigeri)
  • Target version changed from Tails_1.8 to Tails_2.0

#12 Updated by intrigeri 2016-01-10 15:36:27

  • related to Bug #10889: shared-mime-info associates .key files with LibreOffice Writer in GNOME Files added

#13 Updated by intrigeri 2018-02-08 07:47:16

  • related to Bug #15213: Tails signing key can't be imported from Seahorse with the default key files filter added