bug#61883: closed (evince no longer opens comics)

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regarding evince no longer opens comics
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> evince no longer opens comics
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> Wed, 01 Mar 2023 03:08:21 +0000
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Re: bug#61883: evince no longer opens comics
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> Tue, 29 Aug 2023 16:04:08 -0400
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux)
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> Hi,
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> Yovan Naumovski <yovan@gorski.stream> writes:
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> > 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.
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> 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
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> evince 44.3
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>   General
>     Platform...................: gnome
>     Debug mode.................: NO
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>   Frontends
>     Viewer.....................: YES
>     Previewer..................: YES
>     Thumbnailer................: YES
>     Nautilus extension.........: NO
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>   Backends
>     Comics.....................: YES
>     DJVU.......................: YES
>     DVI........................: YES
>     PDF........................: YES
>     PostScript.................: NO
>     TIFF.......................: YES
>     XPS........................: YES
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>   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
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>   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
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> Found ninja-1.11.1 at 
> /gnu/store/7q4crm7s2whyjx0s127p7k43s4fwxzgm-ninja-1.11.1/bin/ninja
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> Closing.
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> Thanks,
> Maxim
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