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List:       debian-devel
Subject:    Re: Before I send a bug report to change DebTags please do some sanity check
From:       Petter Reinholdtsen <pere () hungry ! com>
Date:       2016-02-08 14:10:57
Message-ID: 2fla8nb70ni.fsf () diskless ! uio ! no
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[Ben Hutchings]
> I don't think it's there yet, but AppStream will get some support from
> upstream developers (including through existing .desktop files)
> whereas debtags presumably doesn't.

It is already possible to search for packages announcing support for
MIME types, and the data set is populated with data from the desktop
files.  See
<URL: http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_appstream_in_Debian_to_locate_packages_with_firmware_and_mime_type_support.html \
> for a recipe.

We experimented this weekend to get MIME information also for packages
without a desktop file (example package khmer), but this information has
not yet made it into the appstream database.  When it does, this command
will return the khmer package:

  appstreamcli what-provides mimetype application/vnd.oxli.countgraph

I'm in touch with Debians resident appstream expert, Matthias Klumpp,
and hope we will figure out what is wrong with the import very soon.

JFYI.

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen


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