Re: Using FreeDesktop MIME entries directly in mime-support (Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian).

2012-07-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org (16/07/2012): If nobody else volunteers, I propose to start a maintenance group for the mime-support package, that I would store in a Git repository on Alioth's collab-maint group. I think that's a perfect use case for collab-maint. László, do you really need

Re: Using FreeDesktop MIME entries directly in mime-support (Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian).

2012-07-16 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) g...@debian.org (16/07/2012): I think that's a perfect use case for collab-maint. László, do you really need a dedicated group for that? My intention was to limit people who can commit to mime-support. It seems there are multiple viewpoints for example about

Re: Using FreeDesktop MIME entries directly in mime-support (Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian).

2012-07-16 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
Hi Cyril, On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 22:49 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org (16/07/2012): If nobody else volunteers, I propose to start a maintenance group for the mime-support package, that I would store in a Git repository on Alioth's collab-maint group. Just

Re: Using FreeDesktop MIME entries directly in mime-support (Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian).

2012-07-16 Thread Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)
On Mon, 2012-07-16 at 23:35 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS) g...@debian.org (16/07/2012): My intention was to limit people who can commit to mime-support. It seems there are multiple viewpoints for example about application/x-httpd-* types. One may do more harm with

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-15 Thread Neil McGovern
severity 658139 serious clone 658139 -1 reassign -1 tech-ctte block 658139 by -1 thanks Hi Michael, As per http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities, the severity of this bug is serious as in the release manager's opinion, this makes the package unsuitable for release. Please do NOT simply

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-15 Thread Philipp Kern
Neil, am Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 09:31:53AM -0600 hast du folgendes geschrieben: As per http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities, the severity of this bug is serious as in the release manager's opinion, this makes the package unsuitable for release. Please do NOT simply downgrade this to

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-15 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi Josselin, On Fr, 13 Jul 2012, Josselin Mouette wrote: The freedesktop MIME system (which applies for GNOME, Xfce and LXDE) allows to specify defaults for every given MIME type. However, it is not realistic to agree in Debian as a whole on a set of defaults. But why doesn't it work not

Using FreeDesktop MIME entries directly in mime-support (Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian).

2012-07-15 Thread Charles Plessy
Hello everybody, http://bugs.debian.org/497779 contains a patch for the mime-support package to solve this problem for every package that provides a .desktop file but no mailcap entry. The mime-support package has been orphaned last week. Wouldn't one of the following solutions be acceptable

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 06:59:41PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 13 juillet 2012 à 16:26 +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:13:15PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: see is obsolete. Says who? As your mailer made pretty clear, I am the author of

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 07:01:05PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 13 juillet 2012 à 17:32 +0100, Steve McIntyre a écrit : Kurt wrote: pdfs are opened with gimp for me. I'm seeing that too, and it's ludicrous. See 1342174395.18031.15.camel@pi0307572 for the explanation.

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-14 Thread Brian White
I ran whatever command it is and chose whatever option (orphan/wnpp/etc) was appropriate. The computer on which I did Debian work is sitting in a container in Berne awaiting shipment to Montreal so it'll be many weeks before I can access it again. -- Brian On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 1:43 AM,

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-14 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 15:05 +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: Le vendredi 13 juillet 2012 à 14:26 +0200, George Danchev a écrit : It you want to make xdg-open useable for everything, please also add a way to specify the mime type as option. Without that using it for opening mail

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-14 Thread Ian Jackson
Andreas Tille writes (Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian): Or see #658139 - and I wonder if this bug should be made RC because kittens will die if we would release without having fixed this. It does seem quite annoying. Have you considered asking the release team whether they would

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-14 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 11:05:37PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: Andreas Tille writes (Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian): Or see #658139 - and I wonder if this bug should be made RC because kittens will die if we would release without having fixed this. It does seem quite annoying. Have

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-14 Thread Neil McGovern
severity 658139 serious reassign 658139 evince tags 658139 + patch retitle 658139 missing mime entry On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:09:27AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: It does seem quite annoying. Have you considered asking the release team whether they would be inclined to agree that this bug

Processed (with 5 errors): Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-14 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: severity 658139 serious Bug #658139 [general] generate mailcap entries from desktop files Severity set to 'serious' from 'important' reassign 658139 evince Bug #658139 [general] generate mailcap entries from desktop files Bug reassigned from

mime-support orphaned (was: Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian)

2012-07-14 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 10:16:56PM +0200, Brian White a écrit : I ran whatever command it is and chose whatever option (orphan/wnpp/etc) was appropriate. Hi again, apparently, the orphan bug that you submitted got lost somewhere, so I opened one today: http://bugs.debian.org/681640 Have a

Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi everyone, can we somehome make $subject a target for the *next* release? It is ridiculous that it is in fact completely arbitrary what program is used to open files. Currently in my gnome-shell pdfs are opened with a file-manager, as well as .txt files, as well as anything. That is when using

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Jean-Christophe Dubacq
On 13/07/2012 11:13, Norbert Preining wrote: Hi everyone, can we somehome make $subject a target for the *next* release? It is ridiculous that it is in fact completely arbitrary what program is used to open files. Currently in my gnome-shell pdfs are opened with a file-manager, as well as

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Hi, Le vendredi 13 juillet 2012 à 18:13 +0900, Norbert Preining a écrit : can we somehome make $subject a target for the *next* release? It is ridiculous that it is in fact completely arbitrary what program is used to open files. Currently in my gnome-shell pdfs are opened with a

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Per Olofsson
Hi, 2012-07-13 11:13, Norbert Preining skrev: Hi everyone, can we somehome make $subject a target for the*next* release? It is ridiculous that it is in fact completely arbitrary what program is used to open files. Currently in my gnome-shell pdfs are opened with a file-manager, as well as

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Thibaut Paumard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Le 13/07/12 12:13, Josselin Mouette a écrit : see is obsolete. Maybe the target for the next release could be to get rid of it. Please don't. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Per Olofsson pe...@dsv.su.se [120713 12:18]: 1. Rewrite xdg-utils so that it is robust and always works. It you want to make xdg-open useable for everything, please also add a way to specify the mime type as option. Without that using it for opening mail attachements or stuff downloaded (i.e.

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread George Danchev
On Friday 13 July 2012 13:45:19 Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Per Olofsson pe...@dsv.su.se [120713 12:18]: 1. Rewrite xdg-utils so that it is robust and always works. It you want to make xdg-open useable for everything, please also add a way to specify the mime type as option. Without that

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 13 juillet 2012 à 14:26 +0200, George Danchev a écrit : It you want to make xdg-open useable for everything, please also add a way to specify the mime type as option. Without that using it for opening mail attachements or stuff downloaded (i.e. things that already show a mime

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:13:15PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: see is obsolete. Says who? Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 06:13:43PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: Hi everyone, can we somehome make $subject a target for the *next* release? It is ridiculous that it is in fact completely arbitrary what program is used to open files. Currently in my gnome-shell pdfs are opened with a

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Steve McIntyre
Kurt wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 06:13:43PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: Hi everyone, can we somehome make $subject a target for the *next* release? It is ridiculous that it is in fact completely arbitrary what program is used to open files. Currently in my gnome-shell pdfs are opened

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Neil McGovern
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 06:13:43PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote: can we somehome make $subject a target for the *next* release? Hi, Please consider making this a release goal when we call for them after the release. Thanks, Neil -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 13 juillet 2012 à 16:26 +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit : On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 12:13:15PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote: see is obsolete. Says who? As your mailer made pretty clear, I am the author of the above sentence. kthxbye, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `.

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le vendredi 13 juillet 2012 à 17:32 +0100, Steve McIntyre a écrit : Kurt wrote: pdfs are opened with gimp for me. I'm seeing that too, and it's ludicrous. See 1342174395.18031.15.camel@pi0307572 for the explanation. (Also, gimp shouldn’t be a PDF handler, but that’s another issue.) --

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 13.07.2012 18:41, Kurt Roeckx wrote: pdfs are opened with gimp for me. They are opened in gimp for me too and it doesn't understand them how it should. I would prefer them to be opened in Evince. - -- Mika Suomalainen NOTICE! I am on mobile

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Vincent Bernat
❦ 13 juillet 2012 12:18 CEST, Per Olofsson pe...@dsv.su.se : 1. Rewrite xdg-utils so that it is robust and always works. Instead of relying on desktop environments, it should do the needed work by itself. Currently it's something of a hack, especially when running in generic mode. It should

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Brian White
That seems a reasonable plan to me. I've orphaned the mime-support package, however, because I have no time to work on it right now and do not expect to have any for the foreseeable future. -- Brian On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 8:26 PM, Vincent Bernat ber...@debian.org wrote: ❦ 13 juillet 2012

Re: Fixing the mime horror ini Debian

2012-07-13 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:12:34PM +0200, Brian White a écrit : That seems a reasonable plan to me. I've orphaned the mime-support package, however, because I have no time to work on it right now and do not expect to have any for the foreseeable future. Dear Brian, I could not find the WNPP