Bug#448887: FTFBS: tests very sensitive to packages on the system

[gregor herrmann]

On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:38:23 +0100, gregor herrmann wrote:

> > While the package builds fine in a pristine chroot, it doesn't seem to
> > build on a normal desktop system. 
> Same here.
> It seems to have a different opinion about some MIME types then
> /etc/mailcap and/or ~/.mailcap.

Damyan and me have found the reason for the problems:
The Debian package has an old patch (included in the .diff.gz) which
uses /etc/mime.types if available.
I've made a proper patch of that change now; if it's not applied the
tests don't fail anymore ...

gregor 
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