On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 07:06:54AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
Package: base-files
Severity: wishlist
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Dear Santiago,
the mime-support package that I maintain can be thought of two compontents:
- the /etc/mime.types file, that is parsed directly by some indepentent
packages
such as apache2, and
- the mailcap system, with its executables, its configuration files, its dpkg
triggers, etc...
I am currently planning to separate these components and one possibility would
be to have a single package for /etc/mime.types, that would track the one in
Fedora's Git repository. I detailed this in https://bugs.debian.org/786889.
Alternatively, we could ship this file in base-files, since it is among these
traditional Unix files that one always expects to be available. But it has
frequent updates, to it may be extra work for you.
What do you think about this ?
Your proposal would make the file to be essential, because base-files
is essential.
In general, I don't like non-essential files becoming essential unless
they are really essential to the system, which I think it is a
property this file does not have (mime-support is currently standard,
not even important or required).
I've applied this rationale before. See Bug#745876 for an example.
OTOH, mime-support is really small. If I was the maintainer, I would
not split it, but this is up to you.
To summarize: Because this would imply a change in the essentialness
of the file, I don't think it would be a good idea.
Thanks.
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