[Pkg-citadel-devel] Fixing the shared-mime-info debacle

[Josselin Mouette]

Hi,

in case you didn’t already know, since version 0.60, the format of the
cache file provided by shared-mime-info has changed. The new package
removes the old cache file (/usr/share/mime/mime.cache) to generate one
with a new format, and has versioned conflicts with the packages this
upgrade breaks - the new cache format being understood by newer
versions.

However, this has tragic consequences. Not only it breaks the running
instances of file managers that monitor the changes of the system
mime.cache file, but the per-user cache (~/.local/share/mime/mime.cache)
stays at the old format and completely breaks the implementations.

I feel that upstream made a strong mistake to not rename the cache file
when changing its format. Even if this means diverging from the
specification, we should rename the filename, for example to
"mime.cache2".

The affected packages are:
      * glib2.0
      * gnome-vfs
      * libcitadel
      * pcmanfm
      * rox
      * thunar
      * and of course, shared-mime-info itself.

If someone can think of a better way to fix this, please speak up now.
Otherwise, if you agree with this course of action, I suggest we
synchronize an upload of these packages (using DELAYED) and add proper
versioned conflicts in shared-mime-info.

Cheers,
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