Package: mime-support Version: 3.39-1 Severity: wishlist At the moment ~/.mailcap takes precedence over /etc/mailcap, so a user can't specify a program to use for types that don't have a rule in /etc/mailcap.
Specifically, I'd like to be able to specify fallbacks for text/* and application/* (and just point them to my editor). If I do this at the moment, then of course the setting overrides everything in /etc/mailcap, which isn't what I want. One way to do this would be as follows: 1. Add a "fallback" flag that can be added to a mailcap entry. 2. Act on the contents of ~/.mailcap twice, once before and once after /etc/mailcap; on the first pass, use only lines without "fallback", and on the second pass, only lines with "fallback". Or one could simply have a ~/.mailcap-fallback with the same syntax as at present that is read, if it exists, after /etc/mailcap. I'm keen to help implement and document either of these or some other method of achieving this result. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (700, 'testing'), (600, 'experimental'), (600, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.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 4.21-3 Determines file type using "magic" -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
