Bug#647272: evince-gtk: MIME support is now missing?

[Antoine Beaupré]

On Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:16:22 +0100, Josselin Mouette <joss at debian.org> wrote:
> We’ve been doing that for years, maintaining mailcap crap and waiting
> for people to write the tools to deprecate it. It hasn’t happened.

I am not talking about writing the tools but writing a change in the
policy. The tools will then have to come.

The way things stand in Debian right now, the mailcap is not "crap",
it's the official way of doing things. If we want to drop it we should
at *least* document the new way in the policy.

No?

-- 
Modern man has a kind of poverty of the spirit which stands
in great contrast to his remarkable scientific and technological
achievements. We've learned to walk in outer space and yet we
haven't learned to walk to earth as brothers and sisters.
                        - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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