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Updated mime-support to version 3.55.



Dear all,

I have uploaded an update of mime-support, to version 3.55.  Among the most
visible changes:

 - update-mime does not automatically quote anymore “%s” when collecting the
   package-provided mailcap lines from /usr/lib/mime/package/.  This may
   reveal bugs with applications that did not follow RFC 1524 and expected
   the mailcap system to do the quoting.

 - The “view” command is removed.  It was using the alternative system to
   share /usr/bin/view with vim, while both commands had different purposes
   and semantics.

 - Update-mime will now issue warnings to stderr when encountering improper
   package-provided mailcap entries.

 - The conversion of FreeDesktop entries to mailcap entries has been polished.

 - run-mailcap will try to guess the media type of a file as a last ressort
   using the “file” command, if it is available.

 - run-mailcap now recognises non-ASCII alphanumeric characters, which prevents
   the use of the temporary file in most cases.  (This was annoying for users
   as for instance the program opening the file would not run from the file's
   directory anymore).

As a side note, I have not been very successful in convincing bug reporters to
submit new media types to the IANA before sumbitting them to the mime-support
package; the problem is that for legacy media types nobody feels to have enough
authority to do so.  Nevertheless, for freshly invented media types, I intend
to be strict.

You can see the full changelog below.

mime-support (3.55) unstable; urgency=low

  * Media types removed:

  92def2a application/x-font-woff       Closes: #727156
  c1797d2 application/x-md5             Closes: #720619
  fad5967 application/x-sha1            Closes: #720619
  a71f2b0 text/x-vcard                  Closes: #674670

  * Media types added:

  0d95409 application/font-sfnt
  0d95409 application/font-tdpfr
  0f12ec4 application/font-woff
  020388a application/gzip              Closes: #589991, 688872
  77eee72 application/oebps-package+xml    See: #712054
  ae8262a application/x-font-pcf        Closes: #727171
  020388a application/zlib              Closes: #589991, 688872
  a71f2b0 text/vcard                    Closes: #674670

  * Changed associations of file suffixes with media types:

  ae8262a application/x-font: removed pcf extensions.
  46df3ed application/vnd.visio: added vst vsw vss
  1a69660 application/x-ns-proxy-autoconfig: removed dat, Closes: #418564

  * Packaging:

  b016fe8 Remove “see” alternative for “view”.
          Thanks to Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>, Closes: #623384, #458691
  c5b794b Removed obsolete removal of /usr/doc/mime-support.

  * update-mime:

  5448676 Accept file names with alphanumeric characters from the current
          locale.  Thanks to Tomás <tomas@tuxteam.de>, Closes: #682900
  2a2243e Handle the “%c” (caption) field code from Desktop entry files.
          Thanks to Philipp Matthias Hahn <pmhahn@debian.org>, Closes: #745153
  c0e8e69 Handle the “%i” (icon) field code from Desktop entry files.
  5cf809c Stop quoting “%s” when building /etc/mailcap from the files in
          /usr/lib/mime/packages.
          Thanks to Peter Chubb <peter.chubb@nicta.com.au>, Closes: #747050
  f18b89f Warn when mailcap.order refers to packages that do not provide
          mailcap files.  Closes: #314952
  7b1947f Reject lines that do not start with a media type.  Closes: #384161
          This drops support for continuation lines in /usr/lib/mime/packages/.

  * run-mailcap:

  3c3b56c Redirect stdin to the tty when a mailcap entry says needsterminal.
          Thanks Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>, Closes: #727173
  80a1bc7 Remove unreliable permission check. Closes: #691247 thanks to
          Martin Mares <mj@ucw.cz> and Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>.
  e833a8a Stricter pattern for detection of manual pages.
          Thanks to Philipp Janda, LP: #1300484
  40f72a7 Force the use of a temporary alias for files containing a space in
          their name. Closes: #723708 thanks to Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>.
  642d6a9 Remind of RFC 1524 in the “SEE ALSO” section of mailcap(5) man page.
          Closes: #634254
  dd293ec Run the “file“ command when extension does not tell the media type.
          Thanks to Reuben Thomas <rrt@sc3d.org>, Closes: #77985
  56dba74 Remove last-resort guesses of crontabs and man pages.

 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>  Wed, 07 May 2014 07:03:23 +0900

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Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan


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