[Pkg-javascript-devel] About mime-types module

[Jérémy Lal]

Le jeudi 03 juillet 2014 à 22:11 +0200, Leo Iannacone a écrit :
> On 2 July 2014 14:51, Leo Iannacone <l3on at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> > On 2 July 2014 11:18, Jérémy Lal <kapouer at melix.org> wrote:
> >> Le mercredi 02 juillet 2014 à 10:13 +0200, Leo Iannacone a écrit :
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I would like to package mime-types for Debian.
> >>>
> >>>   https://github.com/expressjs/mime-types
> >>>
> >>> Now.. during build, upstream makes HTTP requests to get mime
> >>> information externally and stores that in local files (already present
> >>> in git repository) - see build.js file in the repository.
> >>>
> >>> As far as I remember, making internet connections during package-build
> >>> is not allowed (am I wrong?.. is it only for Ubuntu?). On the other
> >>> hand, as far as I understood, I should not include those files already
> >>> downloaded and parsed by build.js and stored in lib/* directory...
> >>>
> >>> So, what can I do in this case?
> >>> Allow internet connections during build or use pre-downloaded files ?
> >>
> >> Absolutely not !
> >> Source is downloaded, code-reviewed, copyright-reviewed, etc...
> >> and only then it is build.
> >>
> >> I suggest you just use what's already in debian :
> >> /etc/mime.types in 'mime-support' package,
> >> /usr/share/node-mime/node.types in 'node-mime' package.
> >
> > That's a great idea!
> > I will patch build system to use them..
> 
> 
> I just realized that this file (used by upstream):
>  http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/trunk/docs/conf/mime.types
> 
> is shipped with apache2-doc package:
>  apache2-doc: /usr/share/doc/apache2-doc/examples/apache2/mime.types.gz
> 
> 
> Should I use it instead of /etc/mime.types ?

/etc/mime.types is designed specifically to make sure all packages get
the same level of mime support. Read the head of the file. The file
you're referring to is stored in examples dir. It might disappear, it
might not be updated.

Jérémy.