Hello evrybody, and since it is my first email after the release, A BIG THANK YOU to those who made it possible !
Since Bullseye, the /etc/mime.types is provided in its own package, media-types, and in Bookworm I would like to brush up its contents further. /etc/mime.types is typically used by servers to provide a media type to the receiver of a file, based on the extension of that file's name. Thus, it is expected that file extensions appear only once in /etc/mime.types. At the moment, one of the exceptions to this rule are some script extensions, in particular sh, csh and tcl, which are present under both the text/ and the application/ types. Judging from IANA's registered types for other script languages, it looks like the application type is more relevant. Also, the application/ types appear first in our /etc/media.types file, and if I remember well this gives them precedence anyway. A quick random check in the Internet shows that there is no consistency on how shell scripts are served, but that the application type is used among others. Before I remove text/x-sh and the like so that shell and tcl scripts files are served as 'application' like others, I would like to hear if some of you see a potential problem with that. Have a nice Sunday! Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Tooting from work, https://mastodon.technology/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy
