On Thu, 2026-08-20 at 09:44 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > Hi Benjamin, > > Le Thu, Aug 20, 2026 at 01:33:43AM +0200, Benjamin Drung a écrit : > > > > I created the upstream project > > https://github.com/media-types/media-types to create a pure IANA based > > mime.types file that can be used as basis for the different > > distributions and consumers. The project just ships the media types and > > file extensions declared in the IANA database. You can see the generated > > data on https://media-types.github.io/ > > Thank you so much for doing this!
You're welcome. This project started as side-project a few weeks ago. > When I split the old mime-support package into mailcap and media-types I was > hoping that this would happen one day. I really appreciate your effort to > minimise the detla between Debian and the IANA. > > I have been neglecting the mailcap package too much while working on > media-types by batch at the end of releases. I do not want to be a such a > bottleneck anymore. Would you be interested in adopting our media-types > package? Do you think we should discuss such a handover on -devel first? I am open for becoming a co-maintainer to keep the IANA changes rolling, but I am not keen on handling users requesting adding non IANA mime types. I am happy to help bolting the current package on top of the new media-type project. I think that it makes sense to do it in two steps: Do another release with changes to reduce the delta in mime.types. Then do a second upload with the switch. I like the overall explanation in README.md and that we urge people to officially register media types. Feel free to broaden the discussion on -devel. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
