Cian Duffy wrote: > On 30/01/07, Michel Bardiaux <mbardiaux at mediaxim.be> wrote: >> >> Michael Niedermayer wrote: >> >> > >> > PS: ive seen alot of mime types on patches but yours had >> > Content-Type: image/x-coreldrawpattern >> > >> I've checked: both debian sarge (stable) and debian etch (testing) ship >> file /etc/mime.types with .pat asserted as being coreldraw. FWIW I was >> able to override that with a ~/.mime.types file containing >> >> text/plain asc txt text diff pot pat >> image/x-coreldrawpattern patREMOVED >> >> But I dont like changing debian behavior, so I will in the future simply >> use .diff, which seems the recommended extension. >> >> Anyway, the whole mimetypes thing is a terrible mess. Debian etch >> contains no less than 20 packages installing a file named mime.types, >> all in a different place! And the method is basically unsound anyway >> since it is based on extension rather than contents, like 'file' is. > > > > Would it not be significantly easier to use ".patch" as the extension > rather > than ".pat", like most of the rest of the known world does? This should > prevent bad mime typing implementations from mucking around. No, .patch is not known in debian-sarge. They fixed that in etch but its now 2 months late... > > Cian > > -- Michel Bardiaux R&D Director T +32 [0] 2 790 29 41 F +32 [0] 2 790 29 02 E mailto:mbardiaux at mediaxim.be Mediaxim NV/SA Vorstlaan 191 Boulevard du Souverain Brussel 1160 Bruxelles http://www.mediaxim.com/
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