#85 Extra freedesktop.org mimetype

[Pino Toscano]

DjVuLibre includes a freedesktop.org definition (djvulibre-mime.xml) for the image/vnd.djvu mimetype.
It seems that freedesktop.org.xml (the file with base mimetypes shipped with shared-mime-info) ships a image/vnd.djvu mimetype definition since v0.12 or so (released more than 3 years ago, IIRC).
So, the own definition is reduntant and causes conflicts with the freedesktop.org.xml definition.

[Leon Bottou]

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The mime info file that comes with djvulibre
provides "magic" rules that are absent in the
ordinary mime types.
Furthermore, Djvulibre does not install this mime
info file but leaves the choice to the packagers.

It seems that the first step would be to
get shared-mime-info to include the missing
information from the djvulibre mime types.
Then we could suggest packagers to avoid installing it.

Suggestions?

- L.

What is the suggested action?

[Pino Toscano]

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What is the suggested action?

You already suggested it :)

It seems that the first step would be to
get shared-mime-info to include the missing
information from the djvulibre mime types.

As you know well the DjVu format, I'd suggest you to report a bug against shared-mime-info in bugs.freedesktop.org, and attaching a patch to the freedesktop.org.xml.in file in their CVS to bring the DjVu information there to The Right Ones (tm).

[Leon Bottou]

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Suggestion submitted to freedesktop.org.
See http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14009

[Leon Bottou]

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Changes have been commited into the freedesktop.org.xml file.
DjVuLibre no longer installs this file (but keeps it
in the archive in case someone needs it.)