Please consider registering MIME media types to the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) before requiring their inclusion in /etc/mime.types. Simplified registration procedures for vendor and personal trees are being implemented with the update of RFC 4288[1], that states: "it should rarely, if ever, be necessary to use unregistered types. Therefore, use of types in the 'x.' tree is strongly discouraged." I have confirmed that the process is fairly quick and painless by registering text/vnd.debian.copyright[2] for machine-readable Debian copyright files. [1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-appsawg-media-type-regs-14 [2] http://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/text/vnd.debian.copyright -- Charles Plessy Tue, 08 Jan 2013 06:31:07 +0900