On Wed, 29 Feb 2012, Giovanni Biscuolo wrote: > so the proposed solution is that *users* will maintain mime-support > database by hand?
No. > the idea not to maintain 2 files containing the same information is > interesting and should be done with proper tools on maintainers side, > not on users side... or by standard tools such those found in > mime-support Yes. > if there is enough consensus to drop (or extend) Debian policy 9.7 in > favour of a new one using *.desktop files to register mime-types > (dropping /usr/lib/mime/packages/ files and mime-suport) I'm willing to > help to develop a new tool Please see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497779 for more information on how to properly fix this at the mime-support level by auto-generating mailcap information out of the .desktop files. Russ Alberry gave some tentative spec for such a tool: http://lists.debian.org/87k446oqzh....@windlord.stanford.edu Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog ◈ Debian Developer Pre-order a copy of the Debian Administrator's Handbook and help liberate it: http://debian-handbook.info/liberation/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
