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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">What is the most supported MIME type in Debian?</div>
  24       <div class="date">16th January 2013</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>The <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/AppStreamDebianProposal">DEP-11
  26 proposal to add AppStream information to the Debian archive</a>, is a
  27 proposal to make it possible for a Desktop application to propose to
  28 the user some package to install to gain support for a given MIME
  29 type, font, library etc. that is currently missing.  With such
  30 mechanism in place, it would be possible for the desktop to
  31 automatically propose and install leocad if some LDraw file is
  32 downloaded by the browser.</p>
  33
  34 <p>To get some idea about the current content of the archive, I decided
  35 to write a simple program to extract all .desktop files from the
  36 Debian archive and look up the claimed MIME support there.  The result
  37 can be found on the
  38 <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/pub/AppStreamTest">Skolelinux FTP
  39 site</a>.  Using the collected information, it become possible to
  40 answer the question in the title.  Here are the 20 most supported MIME
  41 types in Debian stable (Squeeze), testing (Wheezy) and unstable (Sid).
  42 The complete list is available from the link above.</p>
  43
  44 <p><strong>Debian Stable:</strong></p>
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  46 <pre>
  47   count MIME type
  48   ----- -----------------------
  49      32 text/plain
  50      30 audio/mpeg
  51      29 image/png
  52      28 image/jpeg
  53      27 application/ogg
  54      26 audio/x-mp3
  55      25 image/tiff
  56      25 image/gif
  57      22 image/bmp
  58      22 audio/x-wav
  59      20 audio/x-flac
  60      19 audio/x-mpegurl
  61      18 video/x-ms-asf
  62      18 audio/x-musepack
  63      18 audio/x-mpeg
  64      18 application/x-ogg
  65      17 video/mpeg
  66      17 audio/x-scpls
  67      17 audio/ogg
  68      16 video/x-ms-wmv
  69 </pre>
  70
  71 <p><strong>Debian Testing:</strong></p>
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  73 <pre>
  74   count MIME type
  75   ----- -----------------------
  76      33 text/plain
  77      32 image/png
  78      32 image/jpeg
  79      29 audio/mpeg
  80      27 image/gif
  81      26 image/tiff
  82      26 application/ogg
  83      25 audio/x-mp3
  84      22 image/bmp
  85      21 audio/x-wav
  86      19 audio/x-mpegurl
  87      19 audio/x-mpeg
  88      18 video/mpeg
  89      18 audio/x-scpls
  90      18 audio/x-flac
  91      18 application/x-ogg
  92      17 video/x-ms-asf
  93      17 text/html
  94      17 audio/x-musepack
  95      16 image/x-xbitmap
  96 </pre>
  97
  98 <p><strong>Debian Unstable:</strong></p>
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 101   count MIME type
 102   ----- -----------------------
 103      31 text/plain
 104      31 image/png
 105      31 image/jpeg
 106      29 audio/mpeg
 107      28 application/ogg
 108      27 image/gif
 109      26 image/tiff
 110      26 audio/x-mp3
 111      23 audio/x-wav
 112      22 image/bmp
 113      21 audio/x-flac
 114      20 audio/x-mpegurl
 115      19 audio/x-mpeg
 116      18 video/x-ms-asf
 117      18 video/mpeg
 118      18 audio/x-scpls
 119      18 application/x-ogg
 120      17 audio/x-musepack
 121      16 video/x-ms-wmv
 122      16 video/x-msvideo
 123 </pre>
 124
 125 <p>I am told that PackageKit can provide an API to access the kind of
 126 information mentioned in DEP-11.  I have not yet had time to look at
 127 it, but hope the PackageKit people in Debian are on top of these
 128 issues.</p>
 129
 130 <p><strong>Update 2013-01-16 13:35</strong>: Updated numbers after
 131 discovering a typo in my script.</p>
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