Subject: bug#68582: 29.1; Emacs does not handle mailto requests

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2024 17:10:06 +0200

> Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2024 15:42:08 +0100
> From: Krzysztof Żelechowski <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> It concur that the desktop file should not be installed.  It has turned out that downstream does not
> install this file except as instructed by us.
> 
> <URL: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/emacs/-/issues/1#note_157822 >
> 
> We should stop installing it.  It lies to the desktop and disables one of the crucial functionalities,
> namely reporting a bug in Emacs, leaving the user perplexed and frustrated.

Maybe the emacs-mail.desktop file as included in the Emacs release
tarballs should have some prominent comment in it warning about this
issue?