Bug#517768: can't reproducing mime.cache problem.

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mercredi 15 septembre 2010 à 16:32 +0200, Andreas Henriksson a
écrit :
> I've tried to understand the problem in the bug report at
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=517768

Thanks for your interest.

> I don't know where to start, if someone could suggest a suitable
> testcase that would be great!
> 
> So far I've found out that the error message originally quoted
> in the bug report is no longer part of nautilus (it was dropped
> in the gnomevfs->gio switch a long time ago).

Nope, the code is still here in nautilus.

> I've also installed Lenny + gnome-desktop-environment, played
> around a bit with an avi test video, upgraded to squeeze.
> This did not result in any problems opening the file.

You don’t just need to play around a bit with a video, you need to do
something that creates a ~/.local/share/mime/mime.cache file. This
involves e.g. creating a new MIME type.

> I wonder if this problem might have only been a concern for
> testing->testing upgrades back in 2009....

It was a problem with lenny→squeeze upgrades back in 2009, but it might
simply have been fixed upstream.

Cheers,
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