Bug#276656: gnome-libs-data: mime type for word documents

[Frédéric Gobry]

Package: gnome-libs-data
Version: 1.4.2-19
Severity: normal


In /etc/mime-magic, Word documents are marked to be of type
text/vnd.ms-word. This seems to be incompatible with other declarations
(either in gnome or in the standard mime system), which use
application/msword. Side-effect: nautilus refuses to open .doc files and
insists on associating another application (whereas openoffice and
abiword are installed)

I hope the report is useful, as the topic is a bit unclear to me. Feel
free to ask for more info.

Frédéric


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-acpi
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)

Versions of packages gnome-libs-data depends on:
ii  gnome-bin                     1.4.2-19   Miscellaneous binaries used by GNO

-- no debconf information