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  13      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  21       <div class="title">What is the most supported MIME type in Debian?</div>
  22       <div class="date">16th January 2013</div>
  23       <div class="body"><p>The <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/AppStreamDebianProposal">DEP-11
  24 proposal to add AppStream information to the Debian archive</a>, is a
  25 proposal to make it possible for a Desktop application to propose to
  26 the user some package to install to gain support for a given MIME
  27 type, font, library etc. that is currently missing.  With such
  28 mechanism in place, it would be possible for the desktop to
  29 automatically propose and install leocad if some LDraw file is
  30 downloaded by the browser.</p>
  31
  32 <p>To get some idea about the current content of the archive, I decided
  33 to write a simple program to extract all .desktop files from the
  34 Debian archive and look up the claimed MIME support there.  The result
  35 can be found on the
  36 <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/pub/AppStreamTest">Skolelinux FTP
  37 site</a>.  Using the collected information, it become possible to
  38 answer the question in the title.  Here are the 20 most supported MIME
  39 types in Debian stable (Squeeze), testing (Wheezy) and unstable (Sid).
  40 The complete list is available from the link above.</p>
  41
  42 <p><strong>Debian Stable:</strong></p>
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  44 <pre>
  45   count MIME type
  46   ----- -----------------------
  47      32 text/plain
  48      30 audio/mpeg
  49      29 image/png
  50      28 image/jpeg
  51      27 application/ogg
  52      26 audio/x-mp3
  53      25 image/tiff
  54      25 image/gif
  55      22 image/bmp
  56      22 audio/x-wav
  57      20 audio/x-flac
  58      19 audio/x-mpegurl
  59      18 video/x-ms-asf
  60      18 audio/x-musepack
  61      18 audio/x-mpeg
  62      18 application/x-ogg
  63      17 video/mpeg
  64      17 audio/x-scpls
  65      17 audio/ogg
  66      16 video/x-ms-wmv
  67 </pre>
  68
  69 <p><strong>Debian Testing:</strong></p>
  70
  71 <pre>
  72   count MIME type
  73   ----- -----------------------
  74      33 text/plain
  75      32 image/png
  76      32 image/jpeg
  77      29 audio/mpeg
  78      27 image/gif
  79      26 image/tiff
  80      26 application/ogg
  81      25 audio/x-mp3
  82      22 image/bmp
  83      21 audio/x-wav
  84      19 audio/x-mpegurl
  85      19 audio/x-mpeg
  86      18 video/mpeg
  87      18 audio/x-scpls
  88      18 audio/x-flac
  89      18 application/x-ogg
  90      17 video/x-ms-asf
  91      17 text/html
  92      17 audio/x-musepack
  93      16 image/x-xbitmap
  94 </pre>
  95
  96 <p><strong>Debian Unstable:</strong></p>
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  98 <pre>
  99   count MIME type
 100   ----- -----------------------
 101      31 text/plain
 102      31 image/png
 103      31 image/jpeg
 104      29 audio/mpeg
 105      28 application/ogg
 106      27 image/gif
 107      26 image/tiff
 108      26 audio/x-mp3
 109      23 audio/x-wav
 110      22 image/bmp
 111      21 audio/x-flac
 112      20 audio/x-mpegurl
 113      19 audio/x-mpeg
 114      18 video/x-ms-asf
 115      18 video/mpeg
 116      18 audio/x-scpls
 117      18 application/x-ogg
 118      17 audio/x-musepack
 119      16 video/x-ms-wmv
 120      16 video/x-msvideo
 121 </pre>
 122
 123 <p>I am told that PackageKit can provide an API to access the kind of
 124 information mentioned in DEP-11.  I have not yet had time to look at
 125 it, but hope the PackageKit people in Debian are on top of these
 126 issues.</p>
 127
 128 <p><strong>Update 2013-01-16 13:35</strong>: Updated numbers after
 129 discovering a typo in my script.</p>
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