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Package Details: run-mailcap 3.70-1
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| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/run-mailcap.git (read-only, click to copy) |
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| Package Base: | run-mailcap |
| Description: | The run-mailcap script from Ubuntu's mailcap package |
| Upstream URL: | https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=mailcap |
| Licenses: | GPL |
| Submitter: | kosmiciatakuja |
| Maintainer: | mariakarlsson |
| Last Packager: | tippfehlr |
| Votes: | 8 |
| Popularity: | 0.000000 |
| First Submitted: | 2010-03-09 14:15 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2026-06-12 15:33 (UTC) |
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m040601 commented on 2026-06-15 03:17 (UTC) (edited on 2026-06-15 03:30 (UTC) by m040601)
@terminalmage
That was really bad timing to disown the PKGBUILD and be out of town ... LOL. In that time the PKGBUILD was taken over by one of those accounts that tried to hack the AUR.
Then Jonathan, or tippfehlr, Arch maintainer came here and reverted the commits.
Confirm here, Jonathan Grotelüschen (Arch Staff) posts HedgeDoc link with updated affected package list
https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/message/FCH7TT6IOVT7D477JKSVJALBKADAARSW/
https://md.archlinux.org/s/SxbqukK6IA
Get a plaintext version with,
And ... yes "run-mailcap" is there. In that list.
So current result is the PKGBUILD is not orphaned and you, Erik, terminalmage, are back to being the maintainer.
Please decide if you really want to invest the time to keep it and properly maintain polish and update it. If not, just DELETE it from the AUR once and for all.
Dont leave it orphan. Dont just assume it might still be usefull for "someone". Because nobody showed up to adopt it in the last years. There are tons of "run-mailcap" shims/alternatives.
I say this a fan and user of mailcap. I just dont want to see the word "mailcap" on the AUR with abandoned things, confusing the AUR users searching for it.
terminalmage commented on 2026-06-09 12:50 (UTC)
If no one gets to it by the time I'm back in town, I'll re-adopt it and take a look.
terminalmage commented on 2026-06-09 12:44 (UTC)
I no longer use this package and I'm not going to be able to look at this for at least a couple weeks. I decided to disown the package to give someone else a chance to get this updated sooner.
m040601 commented on 2026-06-09 02:23 (UTC) (edited on 2026-06-09 02:46 (UTC) by m040601)
Here are some suggestions to update and improve this PKGBUILD.
Why use Ubuntu, a private company dependent product ? Ubuntu actually uses the Debian sources to make this package. They, Debian, are actually the ones both writing the tool and making the package.
It only makes sense to get it directly from Debian.
A search in,
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=mailcap&searchon=names&suite=stable§ion=all
will, currently, give you, mailcap (3.74) , https://packages.debian.org/trixie/mailcap
The package itself,
The sources themselves,
The "Upstream URL" should be
not the "search?keyword..." URL one.
The "Description" should change from,
This PKGBUILD is only a tiny portion, an extract. To avoid conflicts and make it crystal clear for AUR users,
There is also a man page "run-mailcap.man" for "run-mailcap" shipped in the tar.xz. It should land in,
Also add,
Thanks in advance.
m040601 commented on 2024-09-15 00:59 (UTC) (edited on 2024-09-15 01:07 (UTC) by m040601)
Although very very old, this "mailcap" spec and its associated helper tools (like this tool "run-mailcap" might still be of interest for anyone wanting to "escape" the "xdg-open/xdg-utils" hell.
There are still today, new apps being developed with support for the "mailcap" spec. Ex, "telescope"
There are still today, new helper tools showing up to manage those mailcap/mime association.
You dont necessarly need those helper tools. You can just edit by hand "/etc/mailcap" or "~/.mailcap" "~/.config/mailcap" etc.
One interesting might be, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/run-mailcap-rs-git
In is an alternative to this PKGBUILD "run-mailcap", an old debian perl script.
Seems to be actively maintained, https://github.com/cglindkamp/run-mailcap-rs
m040601 commented on 2024-03-21 15:09 (UTC) (edited on 2024-09-15 00:54 (UTC) by m040601)
Additional information about "mailcap" the spec, and mailcap related tools.
the Archlinux official package "mailcap" is a mandatory dependency for big names like Firefox and github-cli,
$ pacman -Qi mailcap
That "mailcap" package is not a "tool" or "binary" to run something. It is just a set of text files and added associations that land in "/etc"
$ pacman -Ql mailcap
The package itself, comes from Redhat "pagure"
What they do, is basicallly just checking and copying the IANA "mime types" specification. And regularly updating that "/etc/mime.types" file with some python maintenance scripts. They also "stuff" xdg-open as a default for everything in "/etc/mailcap". And so has it is indicated by, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Default_applications#run-mailcap
The optional "tools" to work with this filethan can be used are things like this PKGBUILD "run-mailcap"
m040601 commented on 2022-05-29 15:21 (UTC) (edited on 2022-05-29 15:28 (UTC) by m040601)
@terminalmage:
Thank for showing up and taking care of this package. I thought it was abandoned, looking at your activity maintaining other PKGBUILDs.
It might be for some users.
Although I might warn others that, as it happened to me, and, as I later found a warning in Archwiki, it can clash with xdg-open. It ends up leading to horrible orphan and zombie processess trying to open mailto: links etc. In the end I decided not to use it. And prefer other solutions more predictable, native and simple solutions to managing this horrible bazaar complexity of xdg/mailcap/mime etc.
Not to scare anyone, but here it goes, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Default_applications#Resource_openers
And study also, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xdg-utils
terminalmage commented on 2022-05-29 14:16 (UTC)
The package has been updated and the description clarified.
It is still a useful package, and it should not be deleted.
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