Description:

In the current package xdg-utils 1.1.0.git20121008-1 the script xdg-open uses the function eval instead of exec to open filenames. This causes PDF filenames with spaces to not open correctly if the application to open them is the PDF viewer zathura. Instead each word of the filename is tried to be opened separately.

Bug seems to be fixed in Debian: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=652067

Additional info:
* Package version xdg-utils 1.1.0.git20121008-1

Steps to reproduce:
Associate PDF files with pdf-viewer zathura
$ xdg-open 1\ 2.pdf
error: File '1' does not exist
error: File '2.pdf' does not exist


Fix:
--- /usr/bin/xdg-open 2011-12-12 05:05:18.000000000 -0600
+++ xdg-open 2011-12-14 09:10:00.791735160 -0600
@@ -552,9 +552,9 @@
arguments_exec="`echo $arguments | sed -e 's*%[fFuU]*"'"$1"'"*g'`"
if [ -x "$command_exec" ] ; then
if echo $arguments | grep -iq '%[fFuU]' ; then
- eval $command_exec $arguments_exec
+ exec $command_exec $arguments_exec
else
- eval $command_exec $arguments_exec "$1"
+ exec $command_exec $arguments_exec "$1"
fi

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then