Thanks for the quick responses! On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 15:10:04 +0200 Fathi Boudra <f...@debian.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Per Olofsson <pe...@dsv.su.se> wrote: > > The reason is that xdg-mime then calls gvfs-info, which uses the > > shared-mime-info database to determine the MIME type. > > There's an upstream bug to support shared-mime-info in xdg-mime. > It will be used before the file fallback. > Glad to hear that there's a plan for this. 'file' is pretty bad at guessing this stuff. However, I'm concerned about scenarios where a web site may specify the mime type. Ignoring the specified mime type and looking it up on our own seems likely to break things. That was part of the reason for the provided patch. Has upstream considered that sort of thing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
