Package: media-types Severity: wishlist Could you add application/texinfo to mime.types?
See e-mail below for discussion and IANA links. Maybe it make sense to open a proper bug report about this, to track any further discussion about it (if needed). /Simon Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> writes: > Simon Josefsson <si...@josefsson.org> writes: > >> Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: >> >>> And the situation could be easily reverted by somebody declaring >>> `text/texinfo` to the IANA. >> >> I did so now. > > There was a bunch of discussion back and forth with IANA and eventually > application/texinfo was registered: > > https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml#application > https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/texinfo > > There were some charset concerns about text/texinfo (that I never > managed to understand myself, so I can't confirm if they weren't just > imaginary), and some people thought application/x-texinfo was more > wide-spread than text/x-texinfo. > > I didn't understand from your first e-mail what your thinking around GNU > Texinfo format for the mime.types registry is? As far as I can tell > there is a proper application/x-texinfo entry already? I tried reading > about the text/prs.texi format on > > https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/prs.texi > > but the links aren't working. Is there any software that supports that > format in Debian? > > My preference would be to have a application/texinfo associated with > *.texi and *.texinfo. If there is some preference mechanism in place, I > would prefer that application/texinfo is before text/prs.texi. > > Of course, I see no reason to remove support for application/x-texinfo, > it should from now on just be an alias for application/texinfo. > > /Simon >
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