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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
