Hello, I have a package that uses dh_installmime to put a file in /usr/lib/mime/packages/ so as to register itself for some MIME types.
>From the man pages (update-mime(8) and dh_installmime(1)) and the Debian MIME support sub-policy at http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/mime-policy/ it seems to me it is the only place to put these files currently (I noticed /usr/share/mime-info but it looks gnome-specific). linda complains because my package is "Architecture: all" and puts things in /usr/lib. I think it is not impossible, although unlikely, to have packages register arch-specific MIME entries (think of a viewer written in assembly for $ARCH...). Therefore, /usr/lib/mime doesn't look totally wrong to me for some cases at least (a combination of /usr/lib/mime and /usr/share/mime would be better, probably, but doesn't seem supported right now). So, I would say that given the current status of things, linda should not report an error for this issue, and I should file a bug report. What do you think? BTW: the file ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/mime_policy.txt.gz referenced on http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/mime-policy/ch1.html does not exist. Thanks! -- Florent
