Hi all, I am preparing the next update of the `media-types` package, which provides the `/etc/mime.types` file.
We have been listing chemical media types in this file since 2003. This left a lot of time for software and their file formats to be progressively replaced. For instance, in my understanding, the `.chm` (chemical/x-chemdraw) extension used to be used by ChemDraw, but was then taken over by Windows and now ChemDraw uses a different format, `.cdxml` (application/vnd.chemdraw+xml). A bunch of chemical media types are problematic because they declare file extensions that are taken by other media types, and many software parsing `/etc/mime.types` have difficulty to handle this. One way they solve the problem, for instance, is to ignore some or all chemical media types. It is my goal to progresively make `/etc/mime.types` closer and closer to the data available at https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml, including by registering missing types (https://www.iana.org/form/media-types) and by removing legacy extra types that lost relevance. If the chemical top-level media type is still relevant, maybe some people on this list would like to register it to the IANA? A recent RFC was written about how to do such registration, and it mentions awareness of the type (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9694.html). If the chemical media type is not relevant anymore, I would like to remove it. What are your thoughts? Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://fediscience.org/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy
