Replace shared-mime-info with newer release before sarge releases?
Hi,
The version of shared-mime-info that is in Debian contains the following
reasonably serious bugs:
1) MS Word files have the wrong MIME type, this means that some versions
of Outlook will not accept word attachments from Evolution (#264313)
2) The MIME type for XSL files is wrong which means that Firefox (and
probably other browsers) won't process local XSL files (#282986).
3) A portability bug which meant that the masks used for file magic
would fail on big endian machines
(http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1507)
4) No support for Open Document files as used by OpenOffice 2.0 (and
others) (#264313)
A new upstream version 0.16 has been released (and is included in
Ubuntu) which fixes all these bugs expect for (2). (2) can be resolved
with a simple patch. Would it be possible to get this into Debian before
Sarge releases?
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