Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org>
Package name : media-types Version : 2.1.44 Upstream Author : Mostly Ville Skyttä <ville.sky...@iki.fi>, for Fedora URL : https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/mailcap.git/tree/mime.types License : Public domain Programming Lang: Just a text file Description : List of media types associated to file suffixes The IANA [Internet Assigned Numbers Authority] maintains a list of media types (see [RFC 6838]) and their detailed descriptions that indicate which file name suffixes, if any, are used to signal that a given file is of the given type. On Unix systems, the file `/etc/mime.types` summarises this information in a plain text tabular format (media types were formerly called MIME types). . The IANA does not provide directly a `mime.types`f ile. To keep it up to date, one has to regularly monitor changes on the IANA website. This is done very well by the maintainer of Fedora's `mailcap` package. This Debian package provides Fedora's `/etc/mime.types` in Debian systems. . [Internet Assigned Numbers Authority]: https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types [RFC 6838]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4855 Further comments: Currently, /etc/mime.types is provided by the mime-support package, which I maintain. This package also provides Debian's implementation of the Mailcap system (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1524). However, the /etc/mime.types files is consumed by other systems, like Apache, and not all computers need to have the Mailcap system installed. Moreover, maintaing the /etc/mime.types is time-consuming (see above), so I plan to track Fedora's file. Since it lives in a Git repository it is tempting to base a Debian source package on it, but this Debian package would only distribute a single file. Alternatively, /etc/mime.types could be moved to a different package, for instance base-files, but this would increase the work load of the package maintainer. Your comments are welcome. Please CC this ITP as I am not subscribed to debian-devel. Cheers, Charles -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150526131841.22093.98692.reportbug@falafel
