Package: shared-mime-info Version: 0.22-2 Severity: normal A WAV file matches audio/x-wav but also video/x-msvideo (both are defined at priority 50 in /usr/share/mime/magic).
If I use xdgmime (cvs version) to detect mimetypes *only* with magic numbers (without globs), I get no mimetype at all because the lookup function in xdgmimemagic.c detects multiple mime types with same priority and can't make a decision (the result is discarded: see xdgmimemagic.c:685) I suppose that tools based on xdgmime (gnome-vfs for example) suffer the same problem but I didn't checked. I solved the pb easily by adjusting video/x-msvideo magic priority to 49 in /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml and running update-mime-database. Perhaps another way to workaround the pb is to make video/x-msvideo match "RIFF" *AND* "AVI" (instead of "RIFF" or "AVI" as stated in xml file line 15516) Finally, even if I found a workaround or two, I don't know if it's an upstream bug or not. Both the magic file and the source code to use it are involved. The specification doesn't give a detailed magic matching algorithm... -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (900, 'unstable'), (900, 'testing'), (900, 'stable'), (800, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.6-isis (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages shared-mime-info depends on: ii libc6 2.6.1-5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libglib2.0-0 2.14.1-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libxml2 2.6.30.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library shared-mime-info recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]