Bug#647272: mailcap

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Sat Jun 23 14:29:42 UTC 2012


Le samedi 23 juin 2012 à 16:12 +0200, Eduard Bloch a écrit : 
> what's up with this bug report? I see at least three DDs (including this
> one) explaining that mailcap support removal was a bad idea. The only
> response from the maintainers indicates that it might be fixed by some
> smart solution which does not exist yet. 

The problem is in the mime-support package which is unable to gather the
information *where it is*. It is not up to every package maintainer to
translate it for the handful of packages that still use mailcap.

> And then you simply decided to
> amputate this feature completely rather than fix the bugs related to it.
> Seriously?
> 
> Looks like an NMU invitation to me.

If you have time to do NMUs for such bizarre requests, maybe you have
enough time to help fix real bugs in evince? Or maybe enough time to fix
mime-support?

Note that normally NMUs are much appreciated, but re-introducing this
anti-feature will not be. Unless the NMUer is committing to maintain
this mailcap file at every new upstream release, of course.

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