Bug#647272: mailcap

[Benj. Mako Hill]

severity 647272 normal
thanks

I have also just bitten by this bug (also from Mutt).

Antoine Beaupré is correct in his last message. This seems to be at
least ignoring policy. Even if one wants to argue that this is not a
violation, this is much more than a wishlist bug:

  http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-mime
  http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/mime-policy/

Josselin: If you don't *like* the mailcap or the current state of
Debian's MIME policy, you should work on changing the technology or
the policy. It's clear you don't want fix mailcap. Fine. But you can't
just ignore the policy.

Unilaterally changing your package so that it breaks the expected and
long-term behavior of a series of very widely used packages like mutt
and elinks assume that the policy as written is being followed is a
bug in *this* package. Until the policy changes, the .mime files
should be restored.

Later,
Mako

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Benjamin Mako Hill
mako at debian.org
http://mako.cc/

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