Subject: Re: bug#61883: evince no longer opens comics

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2023 16:04:08 -0400

Hi,

Yovan Naumovski <[email-masked]> 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.

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Thanks,
Maxim