[Pkg-gmagick-im-team] Bug#723698: imagemagick: /etc/mailcap display of image/svg+xml

[Vincent Fourmond]

  Hello,

On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 1:29 AM, Kevin Ryde <user42 at zip.com.au> wrote:
> If I'm not mistaken the "display" program can show svg images.
> It'd be good if it had an entry for image/svg+xml in
> /usr/lib/mime/packages/imagemagick

  I'm unsure that's a good idea, for two reasons:

  * first, display isn't a good SVG viewer, because it does not care
about the vectorial nature of SVGs
  * second, it only displays SVG files if libmagickcore5-extra is
installed (which is only a recommended package), so it may lead to
installations where the mailcap points to a program actually unable to
read the file.

  Cheers,

      Vincent