On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:50:43AM +0200, Florent Rougon wrote: > MIME support sub-policy at > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/mime-policy/ it seems to me it > is the only place to put these files currently (I noticed > /usr/share/mime-info but it looks gnome-specific). > > linda complains because my package is "Architecture: all" and puts > things in /usr/lib. > > I think it is not impossible, although unlikely, to have packages > register arch-specific MIME entries (think of a viewer written in > assembly for $ARCH...). Therefore, /usr/lib/mime doesn't look totally > wrong to me for some cases at least (a combination of /usr/lib/mime and > /usr/share/mime would be better, probably, but doesn't seem supported > right now). > > So, I would say that given the current status of things, linda should > not report an error for this issue, and I should file a bug report. What > do you think?
These files should not be architecture-specific, so mime-support should probably be updated to use /usr/share. I say this without knowing much about how it works. I would recommend raising the issue on debian-devel. > BTW: the file > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/mime_policy.txt.gz > referenced on > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/mime-policy/ch1.html > does not exist. This should probably be a bug on packaging-manual if the bug is still present in the most recent document. -- - mdz
