Bug#1000372: ITP: ocaml-magic-mime -- OCaml library to map filenames to common MIME types

[Stéphane Glondu <glondu@debian.org>]

Le 25/11/2021 à 20:19, Thaddeus H. Black a écrit :
>> * Package name    : ocaml-magic-mime
>>   Version         : 1.2.0
>>   Upstream Author : Anil Madhavapeddy
>> * URL             : https://github.com/mirage/ocaml-magic-mime
>> * License         : ISC
>>   Programming Lang: OCaml
>>   Description     : OCaml library to map filenames to common MIME types
>>
>>  This library contains a database of MIME types that maps filename
>>  extensions into MIME types suitable for use in many Internet
>>  protocols such as HTTP or e-mail. It is generated from the mime.types
>>  file found in Unix systems, but has no dependency on a filesystem
>>  since it includes the contents of the database as an ML
>>  datastructure.
>>
>> This is a new transitive dependency of ocsigenserver.
> 
> A typical Debian system already has two such
> databases: /etc/mime.types /usr/share/mime/globs
> 
> I do not mean to challenge you, nor to discourage you,
> but am merely curious:  why a third database?

As said in the description: "It is generated from the mime.types file
found in Unix systems, but has no dependency on a filesystem since it
includes the contents of the database as an ML datastructure.". Whether
you consider this worthwhile or not is a personal opinion, I guess.


Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane