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has caused the Debian Bug report #558650,
regarding mime-support: Smooth handling of gzipped files ?
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Package: mime-support
Version: 3.46-1
Severity: important
Some applications handle properly gzipped files directly,
for example Okular with .pdf.gz files.
However if launched through mailcap (e.g. see my.pdf.gz),
run-mailcap will unzip the file to a temp file and call okular
with the temp file, then the user created bookmarks won't be associated
to the original pdf.gz file, but to a temporary file...
It is obvious that the old kludge of using mimetypes like
application/x-gzpdf is not acceptable, because other handlers
(like print actions) could not handle them.
It would be great if mailcap entries had an optional encodings parameter,
for example:
application/pdf; okular '%s'; nametemplate=%s.pdf; test=test "$DISPLAY" != "";
would become:
application/pdf; okular '%s'; nametemplate=%s.pdf; test=test "$DISPLAY" != "";
encodings=gzip,bzip,bzip2,compress;
(note that the nametemplate would probably have to be removed, or run-mailcap
would
have to append the default compresser extension for the app to be fine).
Please tell me if you think that the idea is correct,
I would be pleased to attempt to implement it and send you a patch
once there is an agreement on the specifications.
Cheers
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
mime-support depends on no packages.
Versions of packages mime-support recommends:
ii file 5.03-3 Determines file type using "magic"
mime-support suggests no packages.
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Nice idea but would violate RFC.
Brian
[email protected]
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