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Subject: emacs20: mailcap-parse-mailcaps reverses priorities in /etc/mailcap
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 14:46:43 -0700
From: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
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Package: emacs20
Version: 20.7-2
Severity: normal

  In /etc/mailcap, the highest priority entries come first, followed
  by lower priority entries. The mailcap-parse-mailcaps parsing scheme
  doesn't seem to check for existing entries before adding entries to
  its internal cache (which should be updated if the mailcap files
  change, by the way).

  For example, my /etc/mailcap contains the following three entries
  for text/html:

    text/html; gnome-help-browser '%s';test=test "$DISPLAY" != ""
    text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -force_html '%s'; needsterminal; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html
    text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -dump -force_html '%s'; copiousoutput; description=HTML Text; nametemplate=%s.html

  When I use `b' in gnus to display a text/html body part, the last,
  lowest priority entry `lynx -dump -force_html %s' was used rather
  than `gnome-help-browser %s' at the top of the file. However, you
  don't have to run gnus to reproduce the problem; simply run
  (mailcap-mime-info "text/html").

  I worked around the problem by removing the two lynx entries from
  /etc/mailcap.

-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Kernel Version: Linux uluru 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i686 unknown

Versions of the packages emacs20 depends on:
ii  emacsen-common 1.4.12         Common facilities for all emacsen.
ii  libc6          2.1.3-10       GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  liblockfile1   1.01           Shared library with NFS-safe locking functio
ii  libncurses5    5.0-6          Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii  xlib6g         3.3.6-9        shared libraries required by X clients