Bug#707851: debian-policy: soften the wording recommending menu files

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Sun, May 12, 2013 at 04:06:48PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit :
> 
> > The latest mime-support in unstable makes use of desktop files. So while
> > for menu it still makes sense to ship legacy menu files, for MIME it is
> > not necessary anymore.
> 
> Oh!  Right, I remember that now; sorry about forgetting the status of that
> migration.  Indeed, that means there's probably no need to say anything at
> all, unless we still need to mention it in passing in case someone has a
> need for the type of mailcap file that can't be represented by desktop
> files (if there even are any these days).

Hi,

there may be some confusion as for media types, the Debian menu is not
involved.  Currently, the Policy §9.7 details how to place files in mailcap
format in /usr/lib/mime/packages/.  I would like to keep this as a possibility
until we are sure that we can rely solely on FreeDesktop menu entries.

I will test (later... but others are welcome to try and report) how far the
mime-support package can do the transition for the default mailcap entries that
it ships, and I will add a section in the next Developers News to suggest to
others to try the migration.

Cheers,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan