Hi,
I just would like to warm up this thread a bit because I wonder if a
solution would be found in time for Wheezy release. It seems nobody
really seems to care about those suggested scripts and we are breaking a
certain amount of programs if mailcap entries are dropped without any
replacement.
On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 15:30 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
Hi,
I just would like to warm up this thread a bit because I wonder if a
solution would be found in time for Wheezy release. It seems nobody
really seems to care about those suggested scripts and we are breaking a
certain amount of
On 2012-05-02, Ben Hutchings b...@decadent.org.uk wrote:
I'm also not seeing GNOME applications as file type handlers in
Akregator (KDE application). So I'm not sure this is even 'just' a
problem for text-mode applications.
I just tried to install 'gedit' to test it, and I can nicely now set
Hello,
On Wed, 01 Feb 2012, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le mardi 31 janvier 2012 à 21:51 +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit :
I agree that an automatic solution would be prefered. However, as long
as such someone does not stand up and write such a program removing
existing solutions is feel free
Josselin Mouette writes (Re: Breaking programs because a not yet implemented
solution exists in theory (Was: Bug#658139: evince: missing mime entry)):
This is a blatant lack of knowledge of the current state of the
distribution.
I'm afraid you are demonstrating your own blatant lack of
Le jeudi 02 février 2012 à 02:14 +, Wookey a écrit :
It wasn't at all obvious that the actual reason was a conspiracy to
remove mime file support from evince. Now that I know about it, I'm
not very impressed. Andreas has already expressed this annoyance so I
won't say it again.
Being
On 12-02-02 at 03:32pm, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le jeudi 02 février 2012 à 02:14 +, Wookey a écrit :
It wasn't at all obvious that the actual reason was a conspiracy to
remove mime file support from evince. Now that I know about it, I'm
not very impressed. Andreas has already
Le jeudi 02 février 2012 à 15:51 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit :
The issue here (or at least at the dawn of this thread) is that some
package maintainers have chosen to break something that used to work.
Claiming that the mime-support system actually works is stretching
reality as much as a
On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 04:23:01PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Claiming that the mime-support system actually works is stretching
reality as much as a bone who just met Chuck Norris’ fist.
I fail to see a reason to fall back to polemics.
The policy
might claim it is the recommended way,
* Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org [120202 16:23]:
[the usual insults removed] The policy
might claim it is the recommended way, but only a handful of programs,
such as mutt and lynx, actually make use of this information.
Or programs like see or everything using it that wants to savely run
a
Le jeudi 02 février 2012 à 16:43 +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit :
The policy
might claim it is the recommended way, but only a handful of programs,
such as mutt and lynx, actually make use of this information.
Any reason you are leaving out those two programs (see, mc) which were
Josselin Mouette writes (Re: Breaking programs because a not yet implemented
solution exists in theory (Was: Bug#658139: evince: missing mime entry)):
Le jeudi 02 février 2012 à 15:51 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard a écrit :
The issue here (or at least at the dawn of this thread) is that some
Le jeudi 02 février 2012 à 16:12 +, Ian Jackson a écrit :
The correct approach it is not to unilaterally decide to do switch to
some other half-implemented system, remove support for the previously
working machinery, and demand that bug submitters write the
compatibility code.
The
On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 04:52:22PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
However, to prove your point you need to mention counter examples which
are actually failing to use mime-support or are actually broken because
of using mime-support.
Are you trying to troll, or do you actually not know
Josselin Mouette writes (Re: Breaking programs because a not yet implemented
solution exists in theory (Was: Bug#658139: evince: missing mime entry)):
Le jeudi 02 février 2012 à 16:12 +, Ian Jackson a écrit :
The correct approach it is not to unilaterally decide to do switch to
some
On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:08:33 +0100, Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org wrote:
Le jeudi 02 février 2012 à 16:12 +, Ian Jackson a écrit :
The correct approach it is not to unilaterally decide to do switch to
some other half-implemented system, remove support for the previously
working
On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 06:08:33PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le jeudi 02 février 2012 à 16:12 +, Ian Jackson a écrit :
The correct approach it is not to unilaterally decide to do switch to
some other half-implemented system, remove support for the previously
working machinery, and
On 02.02.2012 20:11, brian m. carlson wrote:
The mime-support solution is part of Policy. It is a perfectly working,
...
As a package maintainer, you're going to have to support some things you
don't like. If you hate natural alignment and think sparc is awful, you
Show us where
Le jeudi 02 février 2012 à 18:59 +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit :
On Thu, Feb 02, 2012 at 04:52:22PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
However, to prove your point you need to mention counter examples which
are actually failing to use mime-support or are actually broken because
of using
Le jeudi 02 février 2012 à 19:11 +, brian m. carlson a écrit :
The mime-support solution is part of Policy. It is a perfectly working,
fully-implemented solution.
This is a blatant lack of knowledge of the current state of the
distribution.
If you feel that it is obsolescent or
On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 12:27:40AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le jeudi 02 février 2012 à 19:11 +, brian m. carlson a écrit :
The mime-support solution is part of Policy. It is a perfectly working,
fully-implemented solution.
This is a blatant lack of knowledge of the current
Le mardi 31 janvier 2012 à 21:51 +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit :
I agree that an automatic solution would be prefered. However, as long
as such someone does not stand up and write such a program removing
existing solutions is feel free to insert any word which fits.
The point is, no one will
Hi Josselin,
On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 09:29:46AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le mardi 31 janvier 2012 à 21:51 +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit :
I agree that an automatic solution would be prefered. However, as long
as such someone does not stand up and write such a program removing
+++ Andreas Tille [2012-02-01 09:56 +0100]:
Hi Josselin,
To break such a chicken/egg circle, we
needed either to write the program ourselves, or to simply drop support
for the obsolete mime system.
Somehow I missed an announcement that mime is obsolete and not supported
in Debian any
Andreas Tille ti...@debian.org (31/01/2012):
This is definitely not wishlist - but I do not like to play
severity-changing pingpong.
Please avoid “To: debian-devel@” when you disagree with maintainers on
individual bugs; thanks already.
Mraw,
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