Re: Using FreeDesktop MIME entries directly in mime-support (Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian).

2012-07-16 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 23:35 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) (16/07/2012): > > My intention was to limit people who can commit to mime-support. It > > seems there are multiple viewpoints for example about > > application/x-httpd-* types. One may do more harm with a commit

Re: Using FreeDesktop MIME entries directly in mime-support (Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian).

2012-07-16 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
Hi Cyril, On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 22:49 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > Charles Plessy (16/07/2012): > > If nobody else volunteers, I propose to start a maintenance group for > > the mime-support package, that I would store in a Git repository on > > Alioth's collab-maint group. Just for the recor

Re: Using FreeDesktop MIME entries directly in mime-support (Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian).

2012-07-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) (16/07/2012): > > I think that's a perfect use case for collab-maint. László, do you > > really need a dedicated group for that? > My intention was to limit people who can commit to mime-support. It > seems there are multiple viewpoints for example about > application/x-

Re: Using FreeDesktop MIME entries directly in mime-support (Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian).

2012-07-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Plessy (16/07/2012): > If nobody else volunteers, I propose to start a maintenance group for > the mime-support package, that I would store in a Git repository on > Alioth's collab-maint group. I think that's a perfect use case for collab-maint. László, do you really need a dedicated gro

Using FreeDesktop MIME entries directly in mime-support (Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian).

2012-07-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello everybody, http://bugs.debian.org/497779 contains a patch for the mime-support package to solve this problem for every package that provides a .desktop file but no mailcap entry. The mime-support package has been orphaned last week. Wouldn't one of the following solutions be acceptable for

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-15 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Josselin, On Fr, 13 Jul 2012, Josselin Mouette wrote: > The freedesktop MIME system (which applies for GNOME, Xfce and LXDE) > allows to specify defaults for every given MIME type. However, it is > not realistic to agree in Debian as a whole on a set of defaults. But why doesn't it work not e

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-15 Thread Philipp Kern
Neil, am Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 09:31:53AM -0600 hast du folgendes geschrieben: > As per http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities, the severity of > this bug is serious as in the release manager's opinion, this makes the > package unsuitable for release. Please do NOT simply downgrade this to

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-15 Thread Neil McGovern
severity 658139 serious clone 658139 -1 reassign -1 tech-ctte block 658139 by -1 thanks Hi Michael, As per http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities, the severity of this bug is serious as in the release manager's opinion, this makes the package unsuitable for release. Please do NOT simply

mime-support orphaned (was: Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian)

2012-07-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 10:16:56PM +0200, Brian White a écrit : > I ran whatever command it is and chose whatever option (orphan/wnpp/etc) > was appropriate. Hi again, apparently, the orphan bug that you submitted got lost somewhere, so I opened one today: http://bugs.debian.org/681640 Have a n

Processed (with 5 errors): Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > severity 658139 serious Bug #658139 [general] generate mailcap entries from desktop files Severity set to 'serious' from 'important' > reassign 658139 evince Bug #658139 [general] generate mailcap entries from desktop files Bug reassigned from pac

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-14 Thread Neil McGovern
severity 658139 serious reassign 658139 evince tags 658139 + patch retitle 658139 missing mime entry On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:09:27AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > It does seem quite annoying. Have you considered asking the release > > team whether they would be inclined to agree that this bu

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:05:37PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Andreas Tille writes ("Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian"): > > Or see #658139 - and I wonder if this bug should be made RC because > > kittens will die if we would release without having fixed this

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Andreas Tille writes ("Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian"): > Or see #658139 - and I wonder if this bug should be made RC because > kittens will die if we would release without having fixed this. It does seem quite annoying. Have you considered asking the release team wheth

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 15:05 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 13 juillet 2012 à 14:26 +0200, George Danchev a écrit : > > > It you want to make xdg-open useable for everything, please also > > > add a way to specify the mime type as option. Without that using > > > it for opening mail a

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-14 Thread Brian White
I ran whatever command it is and chose whatever option (orphan/wnpp/etc) was appropriate. The computer on which I did Debian work is sitting in a container in Berne awaiting shipment to Montreal so it'll be many weeks before I can access it again. -- Brian On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Charle

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 07:01:05PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 13 juillet 2012 à 17:32 +0100, Steve McIntyre a écrit : > > Kurt wrote: > > >pdfs are opened with gimp for me. > > > > I'm seeing that too, and it's ludicrous. > > See <1342174395.18031.15.camel@pi0307572> for the ex

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 06:59:41PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 13 juillet 2012 à 16:26 +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:13:15PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > > > > see is obsolete. > > > > Says who? > > As your mailer made pretty clear, I am

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:12:34PM +0200, Brian White a écrit : > That seems a reasonable plan to me. I've orphaned the mime-support > package, however, because I have no time to work on it right now and do not > expect to have any for the foreseeable future. Dear Brian, I could not find the WNP

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Brian White
That seems a reasonable plan to me. I've orphaned the mime-support package, however, because I have no time to work on it right now and do not expect to have any for the foreseeable future. -- Brian On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Vincent Bernat wrote: > ❦ 13 juillet 2012 12:18 CEST, Per Olo

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 13 juillet 2012 12:18 CEST, Per Olofsson  : > 1. Rewrite xdg-utils so that it is robust and always works. Instead of > relying on desktop environments, it should do the needed work by > itself. Currently it's something of a hack, especially when running in > "generic" mode. It should probably b

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 13.07.2012 18:41, Kurt Roeckx wrote: > pdfs are opened with gimp for me. They are opened in gimp for me too and it doesn't understand them how it should. I would prefer them to be opened in Evince. - -- Mika Suomalainen NOTICE! I am on mobile

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 13 juillet 2012 à 17:32 +0100, Steve McIntyre a écrit : > Kurt wrote: > >pdfs are opened with gimp for me. > > I'm seeing that too, and it's ludicrous. See <1342174395.18031.15.camel@pi0307572> for the explanation. (Also, gimp shouldn’t be a PDF handler, but that’s another issue.)

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 13 juillet 2012 à 16:26 +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : > On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:13:15PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > > see is obsolete. > > Says who? As your mailer made pretty clear, I am the author of the above sentence. kthxbye, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :'

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 06:13:43PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > can we somehome make $subject a target for the *next* release? Hi, Please consider making this a release goal when we call for them after the release. Thanks, Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
Kurt wrote: >On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 06:13:43PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> >> can we somehome make $subject a target for the *next* release? >> It is ridiculous that it is in fact completely arbitrary what >> program is used to open files. Currently in my gnome-shell >> pdfs

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 06:13:43PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi everyone, > > can we somehome make $subject a target for the *next* release? > It is ridiculous that it is in fact completely arbitrary what > program is used to open files. Currently in my gnome-shell > pdfs are opened with a

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:13:15PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > see is obsolete. Says who? Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://l

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 13 juillet 2012 à 14:26 +0200, George Danchev a écrit : > > It you want to make xdg-open useable for everything, please also > > add a way to specify the mime type as option. Without that using > > it for opening mail attachements or stuff downloaded (i.e. things > > that already show

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 13 July 2012 13:45:19 Bernhard R. Link wrote: > * Per Olofsson [120713 12:18]: > > 1. Rewrite xdg-utils so that it is robust and always works. > > It you want to make xdg-open useable for everything, please also > add a way to specify the mime type as option. Without that using > it for

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Per Olofsson [120713 12:18]: > 1. Rewrite xdg-utils so that it is robust and always works. It you want to make xdg-open useable for everything, please also add a way to specify the mime type as option. Without that using it for opening mail attachements or stuff downloaded (i.e. things that alr

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Thibaut Paumard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 13/07/12 12:13, Josselin Mouette a écrit : > see is obsolete. Maybe the target for the next release could be to > get rid of it. Please don't. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http:/

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Per Olofsson
Hi, 2012-07-13 11:13, Norbert Preining skrev: Hi everyone, can we somehome make $subject a target for the*next* release? It is ridiculous that it is in fact completely arbitrary what program is used to open files. Currently in my gnome-shell pdfs are opened with a file-manager, as well as .txt

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, Le vendredi 13 juillet 2012 à 18:13 +0900, Norbert Preining a écrit : > can we somehome make $subject a target for the *next* release? > It is ridiculous that it is in fact completely arbitrary what > program is used to open files. Currently in my gnome-shell > pdfs are opened with a file-man

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On 13/07/2012 11:13, Norbert Preining wrote: > Hi everyone, > > can we somehome make $subject a target for the *next* release? > It is ridiculous that it is in fact completely arbitrary what > program is used to open files. Currently in my gnome-shell > pdfs are opened with a file-manager, as well

Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi everyone, can we somehome make $subject a target for the *next* release? It is ridiculous that it is in fact completely arbitrary what program is used to open files. Currently in my gnome-shell pdfs are opened with a file-manager, as well as .txt files, as well as anything. That is when using