bug#61883: evince no longer opens comics

bug#61883: evince no longer opens comics

[Csepp]

Evince used to be able to open cbz files but isn't anymore.
It still has the MIME type association registered and AFAIK upstream has
not removed support, so this is likely a packaging issue.

I've been meaning to investigate it but hasn't gotten around to it for
months, so I'm making this issue so that it's documented at least.

bug#61883: evince no longer opens comics

[Yovan Naumovski via Bug reports for GNU Guix]

Probably the comics support in the Evince Guix package is disabled. The 
Evince version that's currently available in Guix (42.3) requires 
libarchive >= 3.6.0 as per the meson.build file [1], but the currently 
available libarchive version in Guix is 3.5.1.

[1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/evince/-/blob/42.3/meson.build#L352

Best regards,

Yovan.

bug#61883: evince no longer opens comics

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

Yovan Naumovski <yovan@gorski.stream> writes:

> Probably the comics support in the Evince Guix package is
> disabled. The Evince version that's currently available in Guix (42.3)
> requires libarchive >= 3.6.0 as per the meson.build file [1], but the
> currently available libarchive version in Guix is 3.5.1.

It seems to be enabled now:

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Program check-news.sh found: YES (/tmp/guix-build-evince-44.3.drv-0/evince-44.3/check-news.sh)
Build targets in project: 260

evince 44.3

  General
    Platform...................: gnome
    Debug mode.................: NO

  Frontends
    Viewer.....................: YES
    Previewer..................: YES
    Thumbnailer................: YES
    Nautilus extension.........: NO

  Backends
    Comics.....................: YES
    DJVU.......................: YES
    DVI........................: YES
    PDF........................: YES
    PostScript.................: NO
    TIFF.......................: YES
    XPS........................: YES

  Features
    Gtk-doc reference..........: YES
    User documentation.........: YES
    GObject introspection......: YES
    DBus communication.........: YES
    Systemd units installation.: /gnu/store/mvcijmapys9k7829vbcfp8j2abw9vgnz-evince-44.3/lib/systemd/user
    Keyring integration........: YES
    GTK+ Unix print ...........: YES
    Thumbnail cache ...........: YES
    Multimedia ................: NO
    Spell checker .............: YES
    SyncTex ...................: internal

  User defined options
    buildtype                  : release
    prefix                     : /gnu/store/mvcijmapys9k7829vbcfp8j2abw9vgnz-evince-44.3
    c_link_args                : -Wl,-rpath=/gnu/store/mvcijmapys9k7829vbcfp8j2abw9vgnz-evince-44.3/lib
    cpp_link_args              : -Wl,-rpath=/gnu/store/mvcijmapys9k7829vbcfp8j2abw9vgnz-evince-44.3/lib
    gtk_doc                    : true
    nautilus                   : false

Found ninja-1.11.1 at /gnu/store/7q4crm7s2whyjx0s127p7k43s4fwxzgm-ninja-1.11.1/bin/ninja
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Closing.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim