Re: Location of "mailcap" and "mime.types"

[Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

Raul Miller writes ("Re: Location of "mailcap" and "mime.types""):
...
> On my system:
> pine: /etc/mailcap
> lynx: /etc/mime.types
> 
> mime.types is listed as a conffile, mailcap is not.
> 
> With older versions of dpkg, installing a conflicting file would
> remove it from the list of files in any already-installed packages.
> I think more recent versions of dpkg do something more meaningful.
> [But I've not verified this.]

No, they don't, yet.  (Though there was a slight improvement in
behaviour if the file was a conffile.)

Conffiles should not be shared between packages - dpkg won't know
which version is intended to be `canonical', and the user will get
prompted a lot.

Ian.