On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 12:27:40AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le jeudi 02 février 2012 à 19:11 +0000, brian m. carlson a écrit : > > The mime-support solution is part of Policy. It is a perfectly working, > > fully-implemented solution. > > This is a blatant lack of knowledge of the current state of the > distribution. > > > If you feel that it is obsolescent or > > obsolete and should be replaced by a different solution, then it's your > > job to convince other people of that, do the work to make that happen, > > and request that Policy be amended accordingly. I have yet to see a bug > > filed on the debian-policy package requesting that. > > This system has *already* been replaced by a different solution. That > horse was already dead several years ago. Get a grip. Fix the policy if > you want to spend time on the problem. > > > As it is, evince does not display PDFs from mutt. Thus your solution is > > inadequate, because mutt does not use your solution (and there is no bug > > filed against mutt to do so). You have thus broken an otherwise > > perfectly working solution because you don't like it. > > As it is, programs registered in mime-support are not used from firefox, > evolution, epiphany, nautilus, rox-filer and konqueror. Thus your > solution is inadequate, because these programs do not use your solution > (there is no bug filed against them to do so, and if there was, we would > have a good laugh and close it).
Firefox does, and if it doesn't, it's a bug to be filed. It lacks support for some keywords, though. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120203062324.ga20...@glandium.org