Bug#469833: "Unknown media type" output message
reassign 469833 shared-mime-info 0.23-4
forwarded 469833 http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16816
thanks
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 05:16:00PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 12:08:25PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
> > # Bug bot commands -- reply below
> > tags 469833 - moreinfo
> > reassign 469833 kde4libs
> > thanks
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 20:23, Ana Guerrero <ana@debian.org> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 09:52:04PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
> > >> On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 17:49:19 +0900
> > >> Hideki Yamane <henrich@debian.or.jp> wrote:
> > >> > > Is this installing the package from scratch or upgrading from a
> > >> > > previous version?
> > >> >
> > >> > That is upgrading from previous version.
> > >>
> > >> And this message comes sometimes at upgrading packages.
> > >> So, the bug may not be caused by this package.
> > >
> > > Those fake mimetypes are installed by kdelibs with the file
> > > /usr/share/mime/packages/kde.xml since long time ago. They are kept in
> > > kde4libs.
> > > In a recent version, update-mime-database became verbose about this unknown
> > > types, and that is why you get this error when you update stuff and then
> > > update-mime-database is run.
> > > It is unlikely to be changed.
> >
> > I've examined relevant specifications and the messages from
> > update-mime-database are correct -- those are not "known" media types.
> > Mind you, they're not critical errors, so the impact is minor.
> >
> > At any rate, if there's a bug, it's within the package providing the
> > definitions, so I'm reassigning it.
> >
> I did not reassign this bug because users concerned about this, will look at
> the package providing update-mime-database and will report again :)
>
> I do wonder if reporting about unknown media types should be only shown
> in a verbose option of update-mime-database and not by default.
>
This should be only shown with the verbose option (an option -q would be ok as
well, tho).
http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16816
I do wonder whether the title should be changed.
Ana
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