Re: Proposal: a team maintaining packages managing media types (MIME).

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Mon, May 06, 2013 at 12:24:29PM +0200, Josselin Mouette a écrit :
> Le lundi 06 mai 2013 à 20:19 +1000, Dmitry Smirnov a écrit : 
> > 
> > On Mon, 6 May 2013 18:29:40 Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > > shared-mime-info and desktop-file-utils are already maintained under the
> > > pkg-freedesktop umbrella.
> > 
> > I see no evidence that "desktop-file-utils" is associated with
> > pkg-freedesktop.  There is no corresponding repository under
> > "pkg-freedesktop" and Maintainer field contains "Ross Burton
> > <ross@debian.org>". I've made new (first?) "desktop-file-utils"
> > package repository in collab-maint. Is that OK with you for now?
> 
> http://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/pkg-freedesktop/trunk/desktop-file-utils/

Hi Josselin,

with no mention of a team or of the VCSes in debian/control, is is impossible
to guess that the packages are team-maintained...  Please consider making it
more proeminent.

For the mime-support package, I am tempted to generate /etc/mime.types from the
freedesktop.org.xml in shared-mime-info, if it is maintained in close
adequation with the IANA's definitions.  If I would like to contact the
pkg-freedesktop team in the future, what is its address ?  The Alioth project
has no mailing list...  Or would it be better to discuss this upstream ?

Cheers,

-- 
Charles