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Bug#367241: marked as done (kdelibs-data: Patterns to match file extensions in .desktop files should match both lower and upper case)

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and subject line Bug#367241: kdelibs-data: Patterns to match file extensions in .desktop files should match both lower and upper case
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Package: kdelibs-data
Version: 4:3.5.2-2
Severity: normal

When you execute the command

grep -E "=\*\...." `dpkg --listfiles kdelibs-data | grep mimelnk`

you'll see that some .desktop-files define file name patterns to match
both upper case and lower case extensions while others only contain a
pattern to match lower case extensions. This seems to be completely
arbitrary. E.g. the pattern in x-python.desktop is *.py while the
pattern in x-ruby.desktop is *.rb;*.RB;*.ruby;*.RUBY.

I think this should be unified so all Patterns also match the upper
case form of the listed extensions. Files created on a Windows system
often have an upper case extension. With the current situation such
files are not associated with the appropriate programs in many
cases. Furthermore I think there is no rease to consider the file
program.py to be a Phython program and program.PY not to.

Cheers, Stefan Borggraefe!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
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  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (9, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-1-k7
Locale: LANG=de_DE@euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE@euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)

Versions of packages kdelibs-data depends on:
ii  hicolor-icon-theme            0.8-3      default fallback theme for FreeDes

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Le Dim 14 Mai 2006 17:56, Stefan Borggraefe a écrit :
> Package: kdelibs-data
> Version: 4:3.5.2-2
> Severity: normal
>
> When you execute the command
>
> grep -E "=\*\...." `dpkg --listfiles kdelibs-data | grep mimelnk`
>
> you'll see that some .desktop-files define file name patterns to
> match both upper case and lower case extensions while others only
> contain a pattern to match lower case extensions. This seems to be
> completely arbitrary. E.g. the pattern in x-python.desktop is *.py
> while the pattern in x-ruby.desktop is *.rb;*.RB;*.ruby;*.RUBY.
>
> I think this should be unified so all Patterns also match the upper
> case form of the listed extensions. Files created on a Windows system
> often have an upper case extension. With the current situation such
> files are not associated with the appropriate programs in many
> cases. Furthermore I think there is no rease to consider the file
> program.py to be a Phython program and program.PY not to.
>
> Cheers, Stefan Borggraefe!

this is not true: *.C/*.H files are most often c++ files whereas *.c/*.h 
are C sources. extensions *are* case sensitive.

this is intended, and not a bug. closing
-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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