Ubuntu
shared-mime-info package

This package breaks "ark" rar support

Bug #1614806 reported by Tony
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
shared-mime-info (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

So i was told here:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367535

this mav be a package bug in ubuntu xenial, which i confirmed. There are links to the upstream issue, which is already fixed, and a bugfix that i would gladly wish you backport.

Description: KDE neon User Edition 5.7
Release: 16.04

shared-mime-info:
  Installed: 1.5-2ubuntu0.1
  Candidate: 1.5-2ubuntu0.1
  Version table:
 *** 1.5-2ubuntu0.1 500
        500 http://do.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.5-2 500
        500 http://do.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages

Tony (jodr666)
tags: added: regression-release
tags: added: xenial
tags: added: packaging
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in shared-mime-info (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Gavin Sharpe (gavin77) wrote :

This bug seems to be present on Kubuntu 16.10 also.

Attempting to open a rar file gives "No suitable plugin found.
Ark does not seem to support this file type."

Ark 16.04.3

dpkg -s shared-mime-info | grep Version
Version: 1.7-1

I have installed rar, unrar, p7zip-rar. I can extract files from the command-line but not from Ark.

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KSSG (kssg) wrote :

I am affected by this bug as well. It's just an annoyance, but quite an annoying annoyance. Any chance for a fix?

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Simon Elmir (nerd65536) wrote :

Per the kde bug report, this is a known issue (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93549) that has already been fixed upstream.

Please backport the fix from here:
https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/commit/?id=10fc17ec61c5b5c6c0e6ea2c8d7a2123271d07e3

Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)
Changed in shared-mime-info (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
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