Re: Buggy "mime-support" package? :-(
> Anyway, the main trouble seems to be that the Debian-1.2 /etc/mailcap has
> grown to a rather ridiculous size as compared to the version provided with
> Debian-1.1.xx:
> ----------------------------cut-here------------------------------------
> [root]/root > v /etc/mailcap*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 320596 Dec 24 04:12 /etc/mailcap
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 502 Nov 30 13:41 /etc/mailcap.bak
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 841 Dec 3 17:59 /etc/mailcap.dpkg-dist
> ----------------------------cut-here------------------------------------
I've seen one other case of this. It happened because the /etc/mailcap
was not in the proper format. The latest mime-support package v2.09
(probably only in "bo") checks for this problem but older ones didn't.
I suggest you remove the /etc/mailcap file and reinstall the "mime-support"
package.
> Well, trying to deinstall the mime-support for apparent reasons i just get
> *lots* of dependancy conflicts making it impossible to do without this
> thing. Here the relevant lines from the dselect dialog:
> ----------------------------cut-here------------------------------------
> pine depends on mime-support
> apache depends on mime-support
> xpdf depends on mime-support (>= 2.01-1)
> metamail depends on mime-support (>= 2.02-1)
> lynx recommends mime-support
> xanim depends on mime-support (>= 2.08)
> ----------------------------cut-here------------------------------------
None of these are technically supposed to depend on mime-support. They
should only test for its availability before calling the "install-mime"
program. This is documented in the "install-mime" man page.
Brian
( bcwhite@verisim.com )
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