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[Josselin Mouette <876703@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Let’s answer since someone added me to this bug report: update-mime in its current form is similar to necromancy.
Either you replace it with something that parses desktop files and populates /etc/mailcap for compatibility, either you drop mailcap support entirely.

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Title:
  evince isn't added to mailcap

Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Evince no longer shows up as the pdf handler in /etc/mailcap.  This
  means that mutt and other programs relying on /etc/mailcap for
  handling attachments cannot open a helper for displaying .pdf files.
  I cannot confirm it, but my guess is that this happened as part of
  3.0.0-4ubuntu1 since I see in the changelog a comment about dropping
  evince.mime:

    * evince.mime: dropped. We have desktop files to handle MIME
      associations, no need to maintain an alternate system by hand.
      Closes: #619564, #627027, #551734, #581441.

  update-mime does not look at desktop files when building /etc/mailcap,
  so this could also be considered to affect mime-support.

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