Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> writes: > Le Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:48:01AM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit :
>> That's the reason why people are pursuing generating the metamail-style >> database *from* the XDG MIME specification so that we can use a richer >> specification in as many places as possible but fall back on the >> previous standard for applications that still use it. > Hi Russ, > I would be interested to have pointers to such projects. > For the registered media types, in my undestanding both mime-support (or > its equivalents in other distributions) and shared-mime-info (through > its XDG upstream) are tracking IANA's definitions, which is a > duplication of work that I would be glad to see resolved. The biggest > hurdle is probably that the divergence in regard to the unregistered > types, and the potential side effects of changes if a merger happened. Well, perhaps I'm confused, since I thought that was part of what you were working on! :) There was a previous discussion on debian-devel about this, during which I posted a scetch of an implementation strategy for converting the XDG MIME files to the mailcap syntax. Someone else then fleshed out that script a bit more, and I thought submitted it to the BTS, and then there was some subsequent discussion in the Technical Committee in the context of the evince application/pdf MIME registration that I thought indicated someone was working on that further. It may be that I had misunderstood. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- 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/87r4qmjwo2....@windlord.stanford.edu
