On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 10:12:41AM +0200, Pino Toscano wrote: > Hi, > > first of all, the behaviour of update-mime-database is correct: it > deletes files in *generated* directories. > > Yes, the various application, audio, text, subdirectories under > /usr/share/mime are business of update-mime-database, where it places > the XML mimetypes generated from the XML definitions in > /usr/share/mime/packages. It is exactly in this directory where > applications should install XML definitions of mime types to have them > registered in the XDG mime type system. > Installing stuff directly to e.g. /usr/share/mime/text is like > installing to, say, /var/cache (i.e., you shouldn't). > > Furthermore, qgo is installing wrong things, and I will send the > proper explanation and fix to #749582. > > This is not a bug in shared-mime-info, hence closing.
Ah, that's interesting. But then: * why are those directories in /usr/ and not in /var/ in the first place ? Isn't this part of the shared-mime-info spec against the spirit of the FHS ? * if it is deemed the right place for generated files, then we surely want a lintian check to spot the problem early * the update-mime-database manpage is quite terse, and does not explain that different parts of MIME-DIR have different roles. It is awkward to have to read the spec to get such important information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
