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package: shared-mime-info
version: 0.19-1
severity: wishlist
tags: patch
Hi!
Please make dpatch-files (or actually all files ending on .dpatch) being
recognized as diff-files.
A trivial patch could be:
--- /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml 2007-01-28
16:27:15.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml 2007-01-28
16:27:53.000000000 +0100
@@ -12835,6 +12835,7 @@
</magic>
<glob pattern="*.diff"/>
<glob pattern="*.patch"/>
+ <glob pattern="*.dpatch"/>
</mime-type>
<mime-type type="text/x-python">
<sub-class-of type='application/x-executable'/>
Thank you very much!
Cheers,
Fabian
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--- Begin Message ---
dpatch was removed in 2022 in favor of "3.0 (quilt)" format
https://trends.debian.net/#source-formats-and-patch-systems
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