Steve Langasek writes ("Bug#681687: missing mime entry"):
> On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 04:48:59PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> > 3. We agree with the Release Team that it is now too late to deploy
> > such automation in wheezy.
>
> I don't actually agree
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 04:48:59PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Josselin Mouette writes ("Bug#681687: missing mime entry"):
> > Le jeudi 26 juillet 2012 à 12:50 +0100, Ian Jackson a écrit :
> > > 4. We do not disagree with the Release Team's assessment that
>
Josselin Mouette writes ("Bug#681687: missing mime entry"):
> Le jeudi 26 juillet 2012 à 12:50 +0100, Ian Jackson a écrit :
> > 4. We do not disagree with the Release Team's assessment that
> > the failure of the evince package to provide a mime type
> >
Le jeudi 26 juillet 2012 à 12:50 +0100, Ian Jackson a écrit :
> 4. We do not disagree with the Release Team's assessment that
> the failure of the evince package to provide a mime type
> entry is a release critical bug.
Before you vote on that: with the maintainer’s hat, I’d appreciate
I hereby propose the following TC resolution (and withdraw my previous
version):
1. The Technical Committee agrees with Neil McGovern's analysis of
the situation regarding evince's missing mime type entry.
2. If changes are desirable to our system for dealing with mime
type entries
Neil McGovern writes ("Bug#681687: missing mime entry"):
> However, I really do think that pushing in a system wide change at this
> stage in the release is not desireable at all, so woudn't be happy to
> see it in Wheezy. If we wanted to do this, it should have been start
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 01:51:32PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > If it's the solution that the TC decide on to resolve the issue, it
> > sounds like something we could work with, at least imho, from what I've
> > seen so far. I've CCed -release for any further comments, as I don't
> > know how
> On Sun, 2012-07-22 at 15:24 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> > > [...]
> > >> The new mime support maintainer team, which took over the package just a
> > >> few days ago, did ask the release team, if it would be possible to still
> > >> apply this patch for wheezy [2].
> > > [...]
> > >> [2] https:
Steve Langasek writes:
> - It's not clear what the transitional behavior should be when a package
>includes both a .desktop file and a usr/lib/mime/packages file. There's
>no reliable way to associate the contents of the two files, so this
>probably ends up with duplicated entries i
On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 11:12:25PM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> A patch providing this converter has been available for a few months
> [1]. The mime-support maintainer just never got around to upload it or
> even comment on it.
> The new mime support maintainer team, which took over the package j
Adam D. Barratt writes ("Bug#681687: missing mime entry"):
> If it's the solution that the TC decide on to resolve the issue, it
> sounds like something we could work with, at least imho, from what I've
> seen so far. I've CCed -release for any further comments,
On Sun, 2012-07-22 at 15:24 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On 21.07.2012 23:40, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> > On Sat, 2012-07-21 at 23:12 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> >> On 21.07.2012 09:11, Steve Langasek wrote:
> >>
> >>> Now, I think providing a tool to auto-translate .desktop files into
> >>> mai
On 21.07.2012 23:40, Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-07-21 at 23:12 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> On 21.07.2012 09:11, Steve Langasek wrote:
>>
>>> Now, I think providing a tool to auto-translate .desktop files into mailcap
>>> entries is a perfectly appropriate way to go about solving this
On Sat, 2012-07-21 at 23:12 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> On 21.07.2012 09:11, Steve Langasek wrote:
>
> > Now, I think providing a tool to auto-translate .desktop files into mailcap
> > entries is a perfectly appropriate way to go about solving this bug, if
[...]
> The new mime support maintainer
On 21.07.2012 09:11, Steve Langasek wrote:
> Now, I think providing a tool to auto-translate .desktop files into mailcap
> entries is a perfectly appropriate way to go about solving this bug, if
> someone chooses to do that. If such a tool emerges, I think that's great
> for Debian as a whole, an
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 12:34:19AM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Neil McGovern writes ("Bug#681687: missing mime entry"):
> > As I understand it, there are still a number of issues with this
> > approach (.desktop files do not contain enough information to get
> > a
Neil McGovern writes ("Bug#681687: missing mime entry"):
> As I understand it, there are still a number of issues with this
> approach (.desktop files do not contain enough information to get
> argument ordering correct in all cases, and it's far too late to start
>
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