On Mon, 2016-02-08 at 14:55 +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: > On Mon, Feb 08, 2016 at 01:42:03PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > > On Mon, 2016-02-08 at 13:45 +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > [...] > > > I was guided by > > > the consideration that everything that has (could have) a mime type > > > might be specified as works-with-format::*. The fact that there is an > > > ongoing effort to register mime types was motivating me for the change. > > > Is my general consideration that there should be a mime tyoe > > > works-with-format:: match sensible or not (and should we possible > > > refresh the discussion in case there might be mime types for biological > > > formats or not). > > [...] > > > > This seems potentially redundant with AppStream (DEP-11) metadata. > > If now we have supported mimetypes as information already available in > the archive and searchable in user systems, I propose to finally ditch > the works-with-format facet in favour of something that actually works > \o/ I don't think it's there yet, but AppStream will get some support from upstream developers (including through existing .desktop files) whereas debtags presumably doesn't. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Nothing is ever a complete failure; it can always serve as a bad example.
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