[Debichem-devel] Bug#420795: chemical-mime-data: Unknown media type in type 'chemical/x-*'

[Daniel Leidert]

Am Samstag, den 27.03.2010, 17:00 +0100 schrieb Petter Reinholdtsen:
> [Daniel Leidert]
> > And what do you expect me to do? Did you read the READMEs of
> > chemical-mime-data? The chemical/ media type has never been
> > registered with IANA.
> 
> Well, an obvious idea would be to ask IANA to register these MIME
> types.  As far as I know, there is no need to write a complete RFC to
> get a file type registered with IANA.  Registering them is a good idea
> anyway, to ensure everyone use the same MIME type for these
> formats. :)

Well, there was a try to register this media type in 1995/96, which has
not succeeded (nor failed). The original proponents are currently not
interested in another try.

However, the chemical/* media type has still been used and now we are in
the unfortunate situation, that this unregistered media type is used.
This is, why these mime types are not part of shared-mime-info and are
shipped in a separate package.

> Another would be to ask update-mime-database to be changed to not
> output any warning for MIME types using the 'x-' prefix, as it is
> supposed to indicate non-official MIME types.

Which has already been done.

> Not doing anything

That's not the case here.

> do not seem like a good approach, as these messages
> are confusing and worrying users (like me, who have wondered where
> they came from for a lone time :).

KDE and a few other packages are causing similar messages. So I prefer a
solution in update-mime-database, which I already requested.

This bug report is open, because there is no solution yet. And I don't
believe, that something will change.

Regards, Daniel