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

[Leo Iannacone]

On 4 July 2014 01:25, Jérémy Lal <kapouer at melix.org> wrote:
> 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.


I was thinking following upstream choices was the best way to get
original library behavior unchanged...

Anyway, package is ready:
 http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-javascript/node-mime-types.git

Cheers!

Leo


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