On Tue, Aug 12, 2008 at 07:26:15PM +0200, Fathi Boudra wrote: >> Is the complete /u/s/mime-info directory obsolete, or is there still a >> point in installing .mime and/or .keys files there?
> The directory isn't obsolete. There's 53 packages that use it. Do you mean 53 packages that place information there or 53 packages that *use* the information there? By googling around, all I could find about /u/s/mime-info is that GNOME versions before 2.8 used the .mime files there, but since 2.8 does not anymore, in favour of the freedesktop.org system (in /usr/share/mime/). So it seemed plausible to me that .key files were not used anymore either, nor by GNOME, neither by other things. > We have the Debian MIME support sub-policy [1]. Yes, but all it tells me is that I have to call update-mime, and its manpage mentions only /usr/lib/mime/packages. > See also mime-support package, referenced in dh_installmime > debhelper script. $ ls /usr/share/doc/mime-support/ changelog.Debian.gz copyright and its various manpages mention only /usr/lib/mime/packages, not /usr/share/mime-info. > By the way, I guess some DE supports freedesktop shared MIME info > specification [2]. See shared-mime-info package. It uses > /usr/share/mime directory. So, again, nothing to do with /usr/share/mime-info/; what is that directory good for? -- Lionel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
