Bug#931300: mime-support: update-mime incorrectly handles MimeType containing empty elements

[Charles Plessy]

Le Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 09:05:36AM +0200, Alex Riesen a écrit :
> 
> diff --git a/update-mime b/update-mime
> index d27b8a9..be4187f 100755
> --- a/update-mime
> +++ b/update-mime
> @@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ sub ReadDesktopEntries
>  					$exec .= " %s" if ($exec !~ m/%s/);
>  				}
>  				elsif (m/MimeType=(.*)/i) {
> -					push @types, split(/;/, $1);
> +					push @types, grep {length>0} split(/\s*;\s*/, $1);
>  				}
>  			}
>  			if (!defined($exec) || !scalar(@types)) {

Dear Alex,

thank you for the report and for the patch.

Do you think it would make sense to throw a warning on stderr when such
a broken entry is found ?  In that case, would you have time to propose
an updated patch ?

Have a nice day,

Charles

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Charles Plessy
Akano, Uruma, Okinawa, Japan