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
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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