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Re: May be ITP: mime-support-extra to close #658139 (Was: Breaking programs because a not yet implemented solution exists in theory)



On 31.05.2012 21:35, Andreas Tille wrote:

> In any case the idea is to collect issues of broken mime support where
> maintainers are unable / not willing to respect Debian policy 9.7.
> Adding more entries is simple:  Just add the according mime file as
> <pkg>.mime and add <pkg> to "Enhances" in debian/control.

I don't think adding such a package is a good idea. It's just an ugly
work-around.

In http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=497779 there is
already a patch by brian m. carlson. Any effort regarding this issue
should be spent getting this patch ready and applied to mime-support.

Michael


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