Bug#681687: missing mime entry
Steve Langasek
vorlon at debian.org
Thu Jul 26 17:33:24 UTC 2012
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 04:48:59PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Josselin Mouette writes ("Bug#681687: missing mime entry"):
> > Le jeudi 26 juillet 2012 à 12:50 +0100, Ian Jackson a écrit :
> > > 4. We do not disagree with the Release Team's assessment that
> > > the failure of the evince package to provide a mime type
> > > entry is a release critical bug.
> > Before you vote on that: with the maintainer’s hat, I’d appreciate if
> > the ruling could also make explicit which MIME types it applies to.
> I am content to leave that decision to the release team. I'm happy to
> clarify.
> So I hereby propose the following TC resolution (and withdraw my
> previous versions):
> 1. The Technical Committee agrees with Neil McGovern's analysis of
> the situation regarding evince's missing mime type entry.
> 2. If changes are desirable to our system for dealing with mime
> type entries and desktop files, including changes to policy or
> additional automation, these should be made via the usual
> development and policy amendment processes.
> 3. We agree with the Release Team that it is now too late to deploy
> such automation in wheezy.
I don't actually agree that it's too late, but I would vote for a resolution
that says:
3. We defer to the Release Team's decision that it is now too late to
deploy such automation in wheezy.
> 4. We do not disagree with the Release Team's assessment that
> the failure of the evince package to provide a mime type
> entry is a release critical bug.
> 5. We therefore decline to overrule the Release Team. The bug
> remains RC against evince.
> 6. The release team should clarify which mime types the RC-bugginess
> applies to. We recommend that the starting point should be those
> mime types advertised by evince via the mime system in squeeze.
Otherwise I have no objections here.
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