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and subject line Re: Bug#545087: mime-support: gzip and bz2 should be listed as
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regarding mime-support: gzip and bz2 should be listed as mime.types
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Package: mime-support
Version: 3.46-1
Severity: normal
Hi Barry,
while troubleshooting bug #541241 of the mutt package and reporting it to
upstream [0], I found out that Debian does not list .gz and .bz2 in mime.types
because they are considered 'encodings'. I saw that this change happened in
version 3.1-1 but I wasn't able to find a related bug report.
Can you please review Derek Martin's correspondence in the upstream mutt bug [0]
and tell me your thoughts? I would like to know what is the reason behind the
fact that we don't have mime-types for these two compression formats,
considering that they still need to be handled by 'application', even after the
attachment is saved.
I saw that other distro are listing .gz as a mime type but it is also true that
.gz is not on the IANA list of mime types; from a first glance it seems that
the
only mime.types we include in mime.types are the IANA ones, am I right?
Cheers
Antonio
[0] http://bugs.mutt.org/3325
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
mime-support depends on no packages.
Versions of packages mime-support recommends:
ii file 5.03-1 Determines file type using "magic"
mime-support suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
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On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 12:33:51PM +0200, Brian White wrote:
> Saying gzip is a type would be as valid as saying that a .uu (uuencoded)
> file is a type. It's not. It's an encoding around some other type of
> data. Apache, at one time, used the extension to tell web clients that the
> following data was encoded such and then use the inside extension to look up
> the file type. When .gz was present, Apache returned a mime-type of "gzip"
> which was useless to clients. That was what originally brought it to my
> attention.
>
Ok,
thanks for your answer, let's resolve the bug then.
Cheers
Antonio
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