* Open Questions
* Resolutions
** Decline to override RM http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=681687#184
+
1. The Technical Committee agrees with Neil McGovern's analysis of
the situation regarding evince's missing mime type entry.
2. If changes are desirable to our system for dealing with mime
type entries and desktop files, including changes to policy or
additional automation, these should be made via the usual
- development and policy amendment processes. It is now too
- late to do this for wheezy.
+ development and policy amendment processes.
+
+ 3. We agree with the Release Team that it is now too late to deploy
+ such automation in wheezy.
- 3. We do not disagree with the Release Team's assessment that
+ 4. We do not disagree with the Release Team's assessment that
the failure of the evince package to provide a mime type
entry is a release critical bug.
- 4. We therefore decline to overrule the Release Team.
+ 5. We therefore decline to overrule the Release Team. The bug
+ remains RC against evince.
+
+ 6. The release team should clarify which mime types the RC-bugginess
+ applies to. We recommend that the starting point should be those
+ mime types advertised by evince via the mime system in squeeze.
+
* Involved Parties
** Andreas Tille <tille@debian.org>, Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>, Neil McGovern <neilm@debian.org>