On mer, 2009-05-13 at 00:05 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > [ Adding debian-release since this is now blocking the gnome-desktop > transition. ] > > Le dimanche 08 mars 2009 à 03:27 +0100, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > > I feel that upstream made a strong mistake to not rename the cache file > > when changing its format. Even if this means diverging from the > > specification, we should rename the filename, for example to > > "mime.cache2". > > > > The affected packages are: > > * glib2.0 > > * gnome-vfs > > * libcitadel > > * pcmanfm > > * rox > > * thunar > > * and of course, shared-mime-info itself. > > > > If someone can think of a better way to fix this, please speak up now. > > Otherwise, if you agree with this course of action, I suggest we > > synchronize an upload of these packages (using DELAYED) and add proper > > versioned conflicts in shared-mime-info. > > Apart from the rox maintainer who disagrees with the proposed solution, > I’m not seeing much interest in fixing this. > > Do you want to see these packages migrate to testing before the squeeze > release? For the record, I didn't see, nor had report, that thunar broke, so I don't really know what is the situation. Looking at the source code, Thunar only supports 1.0 version for mime.cache. The current mime.cache version, according to the spec, is 1.1 but my /usr/share/mime.cache seems to still be 1.0: hexdump /usr/share/mime/mime.cache |head -n1 0000000 0100 0100 0000 d441 0000 d046 0000 0c56 So maybe that's why I don't see problems here. I'm not exactly sure what to do then… Cheers, -- Yves-Alexis
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