[Debichem-devel] Bug#947900: chemical-mime-data: build-depends on unmaintained gnome-mime-data

[Simon McVittie]

Control: tags -1 + patch

On Wed, 01 Jan 2020 at 20:48:48 +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> chemical-mime-data build-depends on the unmaintained gnome-mime-data
> package, which appears to have been used by the GNOME 2 gnome-vfs
> libraries, which became obsolete with the release of GNOME 3 in 2011 and
> were finally removed from Debian last year. This is the only dependency
> in Debian unstable that would be broken by removing gnome-mime-data.
> 
> All vaguely modern versions of GNOME (and all other major desktop
> environments, as far as I know) use the freedesktop.org shared-mime-info
> database for MIME types. chemical-mime-data appears to contain data to
> extend both the newer shared-mime-info and the old gnome-mime-data.

Please see attached patch or
<https://salsa.debian.org/debichem-team/chemical-mime-data/-/merge_requests/1>.

    smcv
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