Bug#165940: Close this bug

[gregor herrmann]

On Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:09:23 +0300, Roman V. Nikolaev wrote:

> Hello. I add all current mime types from Debian`s /etc/mime.types and
> send patch to author. It`s applied in 1.29.

Great, thanks!
 
> This module authtor (Mark Overmeer) writes about /etc/mime.types:
> 
> No, I do register all types... however... I should spend more time
> in collecting them.  The recent years, I only add types when people
> explicitly ask me to.
> 
> MIME::Types is system independent, so cannot depend on /etc/mime.types.
> It should be rewritten to be more lazy: the table size is exploding.
> Translating every line in an object to start with is too expensive.
> It's on my (long) list of plans.

Right, we've had this dicussion before, cf.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=12;bug=165940

So closing this bug is not the right way to go IMO for the time
being; maybe Mark finds the time to change the module at some point.

Cheers,
gregor
 
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