Package: media-types
Severity: wishlist
Could you add application/texinfo to mime.types?
See e-mail below for discussion and IANA links.
Maybe it make sense to open a proper bug report about this, to track any further discussion about it (if needed).
/Simon
Simon Josefsson <
simon@josefsson.org> writes:
Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> writes:
Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> writes:
And the situation could be easily reverted by somebody declaring
`text/texinfo` to the IANA.
I did so now.
There was a bunch of discussion back and forth with IANA and eventually application/texinfo was registered:
https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml#application https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/application/texinfo
There were some charset concerns about text/texinfo (that I never
managed to understand myself, so I can't confirm if they weren't just imaginary), and some people thought application/x-texinfo was more wide-spread than text/x-texinfo.
I didn't understand from your first e-mail what your thinking around GNU Texinfo format for the mime.types registry is? As far as I can tell
there is a proper application/x-texinfo entry already? I tried reading
about the text/prs.texi format on
https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/prs.texi
but the links aren't working. Is there any software that supports that format in Debian?
My preference would be to have a application/texinfo associated with
*.texi and *.texinfo. If there is some preference mechanism in place, I would prefer that application/texinfo is before text/prs.texi.
Of course, I see no reason to remove support for application/x-texinfo,
it should from now on just be an alias for application/texinfo.
/Simon
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