Slight addition: compressed DVI support was also requested.

application/x-gzpostscript for gzip postscript. I think evince already supports
that.

However, we lack .ps.bz2, .pdf.gz/bz2 and .dvi.gz/bz2

Also, eps.gz/bz2 is missing

Created attachment 4935 [details] [review]
Suggested mime entries

Attaching a patch with proposed mime entries for those compressed document
formats.  There doesn't seem to be a consistent naming scheme for compressed
mime types in the existing entries, so I settled for application/x-gzpdf,
application/x-bzpdf, application/x-bzpostscript, application/x-gzdvi,
application/x-bzdvi, image/x-gzeps and image/x-bzeps.

It's a nice patch, and it would be nice have it in the freedesktop.org xml.

Any news about this bug?
It would be really useful to have this one fixed. A lot of documentation in
Debian packages (/usr/share/doc) use .pdf.gz.

Patch committed, thanks for your efforts and your patience.