On Mon, Nov 22, 2021 at 09:55:52AM +0100, Stéphane Glondu wrote:
> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
> Owner: Stéphane Glondu <glo...@debian.org>
> X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org, 
> debian-ocaml-ma...@lists.debian.org
> 
> * Package name    : ocaml-magic-mime
>   Version         : 1.2.0
>   Upstream Author : Anil Madhavapeddy
> * URL             : https://github.com/mirage/ocaml-magic-mime
> * License         : ISC
>   Programming Lang: OCaml
>   Description     : OCaml library to map filenames to common MIME types
> 
>  This library contains a database of MIME types that maps filename
>  extensions into MIME types suitable for use in many Internet
>  protocols such as HTTP or e-mail. It is generated from the mime.types
>  file found in Unix systems, but has no dependency on a filesystem
>  since it includes the contents of the database as an ML
>  datastructure.
> 
> This is a new transitive dependency of ocsigenserver.

A typical Debian system already has two such
databases: /etc/mime.types /usr/share/mime/globs

I do not mean to challenge you, nor to discourage you,
but am merely curious:  why a third database?

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