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regarding RFP: media-types -- List of media types associated to file suffixes
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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org>
Package name : media-types
Version : 2.1.44
Upstream Author : Mostly Ville Skyttä <ville.sky...@iki.fi>, for Fedora
URL :
https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/mailcap.git/tree/mime.types
License : Public domain
Programming Lang: Just a text file
Description : List of media types associated to file suffixes
The IANA [Internet Assigned Numbers Authority] maintains a list of media types
(see [RFC 6838]) and their detailed descriptions that indicate which file name
suffixes, if any, are used to signal that a given file is of the given type.
On Unix systems, the file `/etc/mime.types` summarises this information in a
plain text tabular format (media types were formerly called MIME types).
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The IANA does not provide directly a `mime.types`f ile. To keep it up to
date, one has to regularly monitor changes on the IANA website. This is done
very well by the maintainer of Fedora's `mailcap` package. This Debian package
provides Fedora's `/etc/mime.types` in Debian systems.
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[Internet Assigned Numbers Authority]:
https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types
[RFC 6838]: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4855
Further comments:
Currently, /etc/mime.types is provided by the mime-support package, which I
maintain. This package also provides Debian's implementation of the Mailcap
system (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1524). However, the /etc/mime.types
files is consumed by other systems, like Apache, and not all computers need to
have the Mailcap system installed. Moreover, maintaing the /etc/mime.types is
time-consuming (see above), so I plan to track Fedora's file. Since it lives
in a Git repository it is tempting to base a Debian source package on it, but
this Debian package would only distribute a single file. Alternatively,
/etc/mime.types could be moved to a different package, for instance base-files,
but this would increase the work load of the package maintainer.
Your comments are welcome. Please CC this ITP as I am not subscribed to
debian-devel.
Cheers,
Charles
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Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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The package has been introduced to Debian:
https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/media-types
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