Re: Inconsistency between mime-support, shared-mime-info and file for PHP files media types.

2012-09-01 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 07:37:17PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : There was a previous discussion on debian-devel about this, during which I posted a scetch of an implementation strategy for converting the XDG MIME files to the mailcap syntax. Someone else then fleshed out that script a bit

Re: Inconsistency between mime-support, shared-mime-info and file for PHP files media types.

2012-08-31 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:48:01AM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : That's the reason why people are pursuing generating the metamail-style database *from* the XDG MIME specification so that we can use a richer specification in as many places as possible but fall back on the previous standard

Re: Inconsistency between mime-support, shared-mime-info and file for PHP files media types.

2012-08-31 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: Le Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:48:01AM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : That's the reason why people are pursuing generating the metamail-style database *from* the XDG MIME specification so that we can use a richer specification in as many places as possible

Re: Inconsistency between mime-support, shared-mime-info and file for PHP files media types.

2012-08-30 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le jeudi 30 août 2012 à 00:38 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer a écrit : On Thu, 2012-08-30 at 07:16 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: A type is a subclass of another type if any instance of the first type is also an instance of the second. For example, all image/svg files are also

Re: Inconsistency between mime-support, shared-mime-info and file for PHP files media types.

2012-08-30 Thread Russ Allbery
Josselin Mouette j...@debian.org writes: All applications implementing the XDG MIME specification (e.g. through GIO or kdelibs) get the benefit of such features (and others such as aliasing). Yet people keep screaming that mime-support is awesome and don’t want to drop it. Please don't

Inconsistency between mime-support, shared-mime-info and file for PHP files media types.

2012-08-29 Thread Charles Plessy
[Copy sent to maintainers of mime-support, shared-mime-info, file and php5, as an invitation to participate to the discussion.] Le Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 01:27:51PM -0700, Ben Hutchings a écrit : On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 19:55 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: With things like SVG it's

Re: Inconsistency between mime-support, shared-mime-info and file for PHP files media types.

2012-08-29 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
On Thu, 2012-08-30 at 07:16 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: A type is a subclass of another type if any instance of the first type is also an instance of the second. For example, all image/svg files are also text/xml, text/plain and application/octet-stream files. Subclassing is about