Package: debian-policy
Severity: normal
Dear all,
soon after it was added, the recommendation about update-mime has to be
amended, as mime-support was recently updated to use Dpkg triggers.
Have a nice day,
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Charles
>From 5fcbd4bf5ebaff88ba7a5d873756ba785974e462 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 22:58:41 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Do not call update-mime directly, since it is triggered by
Dpkg.
---
policy.sgml | 20 +++-----------------
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
index 1a61d4f..bcbf495 100644
--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -7378,24 +7378,10 @@ Reloading <var>description</var> configuration...done.
The <package>mime-support</package> package provides the
<prgn>update-mime</prgn> program which allows packages to
register programs that can show, compose, edit or print
- MIME types.
+ MIME types, using Dpkg triggers. Packages registering such programs
+ should <em>not</em> depend on, recommend, or suggest
+ <prgn>mime-support</prgn>.
</p>
-
- <p>
- Packages containing such programs must register them
- with <prgn>update-mime</prgn> as documented in <manref
- name="update-mime" section="8">. They should <em>not</em> depend
- on, recommend, or suggest <prgn>mime-support</prgn>. Instead,
- they should just put something like the following in the
- <tt>postinst</tt> and <tt>postrm</tt> scripts:
-
- <example>
- if [ -x /usr/sbin/update-mime ]; then
- update-mime
- fi
- </example>
- </p>
-
</sect>
<sect>
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