Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.0.34 Severity: wishlist I'd like to propose a new dependancy type which could possibly be described best with the keyword "affects". The problem behind this is that with slink, many packages that register new mimetypes do not depend on mime-support, and thus get configured before mime-support. Since the /etc/mailcap file is not present at configuration time, they assume that mime-support is not installed, and skip this step. Thus, about 50% of the available mimetypes are not registered.
I would propose that these packages could "affect" mime-support. As soon as something about the installation status of mime-support changed, the postinst script could be called with appropriate arguments, and the script would make sure the package is still registered properly. This would also allow to rebuild the database if it got lost, by simply re-installing mime-types. BTW, the same goes for the documentation. Until doc-base (I believe) is installed, install-docs simply ignores every request to register documentation. Simon -- System Information Debian Release: 2.1 Kernel Version: Linux phobos 2.0.36 #1 Sun Mar 21 15:07:33 CET 1999 i486 unknown Versions of the packages dpkg depends on: ii libc6 2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: shared libraries ii libncurses4 4.2-3 Shared libraries for terminal handling ii libstdc++2.9 2.91.60-5 The GNU stdc++ library (egcs version)
