Bug 6303

Summary: Inconsistent debian package mime type
Product: shared-mime-info Reporter: Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro <gjc>
Component: freedesktop.org.xmlAssignee: Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: high CC: bugzilla, seb128
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description Gustavo J. A. M. Carneiro 2006-03-18 00:53:19 UTC 
shared mime defines .deb packages as application/x-deb

However, apache2 reads /etc/mime.types wich contains:
application/x-debian-package                    deb udeb

Wikipedia agrees with /etc/mime.types:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_archive_formats
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2006-08-25 07:44:29 UTC 
If a mime-type isn't registered with the IETF, then it might as well be made up
(and Wikipedia isn't a definitive source of information ;)

2006-08-25  Bastien Nocera  <hadess@hadess.net>

        * freedesktop.org.xml.in: add application/x-debian-package as an alias
        for application/x-deb, as used by Apache, spotted by Gustavo
        J. A. M. Carneiro <gjc@inescporto.pt> (Closes: #6303)

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