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- <book>
- <titlepag>
- <title>The Debian MIME support sub-policy</title>
- <author>
- <name>J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)</name>
- <email>jdassen@debian.org</email>
- </author>
- <author>
- <name>The Debian Policy mailing List</name>
- <email>debian-policy@lists.debian.org</email>
- </author>
- <version>version &version;, &date;</version>
-
- <abstract>
- This manual describes the policy requirements for the MIME support
- system used in the Debian distribution. This
- document is part of the policy package for Debian. The policy
- package itself is maintained by a group of maintainers that
- have no editorial powers. At the moment, the list of
- maintainers is:
- <enumlist>
- <item>
- <p>Julian Gilbey <email>J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk</email></p>
- </item>
- <item>
- <p>Manoj Srivastava <email>srivasta@debian.org</email></p>
- </item>
- </enumlist>
- </abstract>
-
-
- <copyright>
- <copyrightsummary>
- Copyright ©1999 .
- </copyrightsummary>
- <p>
- This manual is free software; you may redistribute it and/or
- modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
- as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version
- 2, or (at your option) any later version.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
- <em>without any warranty</em>; without even the implied
- warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular
- purpose. See the GNU General Public License for more
- details.
- </p>
- <p>
- A copy of the GNU General Public License is available as
- <tt>/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL</tt> in the Debian
- distribution or on the World Wide Web at <url
- id="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html" name="The GNU
- General Public Licence">. You can also obtain it by writing
- to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth
- Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
- </p>
- </copyright>
- </titlepag>
-
- <toc detail="sect">
-
- <chapt>
- <heading>About this document</heading>
- <p>
- This document is distributed as the <tt>mime-policy</tt> files
- in the Debian package
- <package><url name="debian-policy" id="http://packages.debian.org/debian-policy"></package>.
- It is also available from the Debian web mirrors at
- <tt><url name="/doc/packaging-manuals/mime-policy/"
- id="http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/mime-policy/"></tt>.
- </p>
- </chapt>
-
- <chapt>
- <heading>MIME support mechanism</heading>
- <p>
- If you need assistance implementing this sub-policy, please
- please ask for it on the debian-devel mailing list. If you
- have proposals for changes or additions to this sub-policy,
- please bring it up on debian-policy.
- </p>
- <sect>
- <heading>Background</heading>
- <p>
- MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, RFC 1521) is
- a mechanism for encoding files and datastreams and providing
- meta-information about them, in particular their type (e.g. audio
- or video) and format (e.g. PNG, HTML, MP3).
- </p>
-
- <p>
- Registration of MIME type handlers allows programs like mail
- user agents and web browsers to to invoke these handlers to
- view, edit or display MIME types they don't support directly.
- </p>
-
- </sect>
-
- <sect>
- <heading>MIME support implementation</heading>
- <p>
- The <package>mime-support</package> package provides the
- <prgn>update-mime</prgn> program which allows packages to
- register programs that can show, compose, edit or print
- MIME types.
- </p>
-
- <p>
- Packages containing such programs must register them
- with <prgn>update-mime</prgn> as documented in <manref
- name="update-mime" section="8">. They should <em>not</em> depend
- on, recommend, or suggest <prgn>mime-support</prgn>. Instead,
- they should just put something like the following in the
- <tt>postinst</tt> and <tt>postrm</tt> scripts:
-
- <example>
- if [ -x /usr/sbin/update-mime ]; then
- update-mime
- fi
- </example>
- </p>
- </sect>
- </chapt>
- </book>
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MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions, RFCs 2045-2049)
is a mechanism for encoding files and data streams and
providing meta-information about them, in particular their
- type (e.g. audio or video) and format (e.g. PNG, HTML,
+ type (e.g. audio or video) and format (e.g. PNG, HTML,
MP3).
</p>
</p>
<p>
- The MIME support policy can be found in the <tt>mime-policy</tt>
- files in the <tt>debian-policy</tt> package.
- It is also available from the Debian web mirrors at
- <tt><url name="/doc/packaging-manuals/mime-policy/"
- id="http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/mime-policy/"></tt>.
+ The <package>mime-support</package> package provides the
+ <prgn>update-mime</prgn> program which allows packages to
+ register programs that can show, compose, edit or print
+ MIME types.
+ </p>
+
+ <p>
+ Packages containing such programs must register them
+ with <prgn>update-mime</prgn> as documented in <manref
+ name="update-mime" section="8">. They should <em>not</em> depend
+ on, recommend, or suggest <prgn>mime-support</prgn>. Instead,
+ they should just put something like the following in the
+ <tt>postinst</tt> and <tt>postrm</tt> scripts:
+
+ <example>
+ if [ -x /usr/sbin/update-mime ]; then
+ update-mime
+ fi
+ </example>
</p>
</sect>
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