Bug#469833: "Unknown media type" output message

[Filip Van Raemdonck]

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tags 469833 - moreinfo
reassign 469833 kde4libs
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On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 20:23, Ana Guerrero <ana at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 09:52:04PM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote:
>> On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 17:49:19 +0900
>> Hideki Yamane <henrich at debian.or.jp> wrote:
>> > > Is this installing the package from scratch or upgrading from a
>> > > previous version?
>> >
>> >  That is upgrading from previous version.
>>
>>  And this message comes sometimes at upgrading packages.
>>  So, the bug may not be caused by this package.
>
> Those fake mimetypes are installed by kdelibs with the file
> /usr/share/mime/packages/kde.xml since long time ago. They are kept in
> kde4libs.
> In a recent version, update-mime-database became verbose about this unknown
> types, and that is why you get this error when you update stuff and then
> update-mime-database is run.
> It is unlikely to be changed.

I've examined relevant specifications and the messages from
update-mime-database are correct -- those are not "known" media types.
Mind you, they're not critical errors, so the impact is minor.

At any rate, if there's a bug, it's within the package providing the
definitions, so I'm reassigning it.


KR,

Filip

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