Am Dienstag, den 15.01.2008, 13:43 +0900 schrieb Charles Plessy: > Le Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 11:20:09AM -0000, Debian Wiki a écrit : > > The following page has been changed by SteffenMoeller: > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianMedMIME > > > > + Can someone confirm/improve > > + > > + ||'''Suffix'''||'''MIME type''' ||'''Package(s)''' || > > + ||.pdb ||chemical/x-pdb || rasmol || > > Hi Steffen, > > as per .pdb format version 2.3, all records must start with a HEADER > field. > > ftp://pdb.protein.osaka-u.ac.jp/v3/pub/pdb/doc/format_descriptions/format2.3-0108-a4.pdf > page 13. > > The chemical-mime-data package provides a mime entry for the PDB format > that seems to be very comprehensive as it also takes into account broken > files that start with other fields. > > I have no experience in cristallography. Daniel, do you know if this is > necessary ?
What should be necessary? > Maybe rasmol (and pymol, and others) should suggest chemical-mime-data? > I do not think that it can recommend it because of bug 420795. I don't think, that bug #420795 is a reason to not recommend chemical-mime-data. Unfortunately chemical/* is not registered, but widely used. So we have to live with the warnings (and at least I can live with them). You will receive exactly the same warnings by adding chemical/* MIME types to "your" packages. So what? I would suggest or recommend chemical-mime-data. It also contains (as of version 0.1.95 IIRC) detection routines for KDE3 and libmagic/mod_mime_magic. > Shall I > file wishlist bugs or should we try to push a text/x-pdb alternative in > shared-mime-database ? That is a really bad alternative. (a) You would create a conflict with chemical/x-pdb for exactly the same file format and thus shared-mime-info would need to conflict with chemical-mime-data. (b) Most servers I know send .pdb files as chemical/x-pdb and not text/x-pdb (note, that chemical/x-pdb belongs to the original RFC by Rzepa, Murray-Rust and Whitaker more then 10 years ago). This will also be the case for users using chemical-mime-data: detection routines will detect attachments to be of type chemical/x-pdb when sending an eMail. No, here I really recommend to stay with the historic name. I told you to not *create* new chemical/* MIME types (exception may be possible for "real" chemical file types, that are not application specific), not to rename existing ones. The latter will only create more confusion. Regards, Daniel
