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+ <div class="title">What is the most supported MIME type in Debian?</div>
+ <div class="date">16th January 2013</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>The <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/AppStreamDebianProposal">DEP-11
+proposal to add AppStream information to the Debian archive</a>, is a
+proposal to make it possible for a Desktop application to propose to
+the user some package to install to gain support for a given MIME
+type, font, library etc. that is currently missing. With such
+mechanism in place, it would be possible for the desktop to
+automatically propose and install leocad if some LDraw file is
+downloaded by the browser.</p>
+
+<p>To get some idea about the current content of the archive, I decided
+to write a simple program to extract all .desktop files from the
+Debian archive and look up the claimed MIME support there. The result
+can be found on the
+<a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/pub/AppStreamTest">Skolelinux FTP
+site</a>. Using the collected information, it become possible to
+answer the question in the title. Here are the 20 most supported MIME
+types in Debian stable (Squeeze), testing (Wheezy) and unstable (Sid).
+The complete list is available from the link above.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Debian Stable:</strong></p>
+
+<pre>
+ count MIME type
+ ----- -----------------------
+ 25 audio/mpeg
+ 24 audio/x-mp3
+ 24 application/ogg
+ 23 text/plain
+ 21 image/tiff
+ 20 image/jpeg
+ 20 audio/x-flac
+ 19 image/png
+ 19 image/gif
+ 19 audio/x-wav
+ 19 audio/x-mpegurl
+ 18 image/bmp
+ 18 audio/x-scpls
+ 18 audio/x-mpeg
+ 16 audio/x-musepack
+ 16 application/x-ogg
+ 14 image/x-portable-pixmap
+ 14 image/x-portable-bitmap
+ 13 video/x-ms-asf
+ 13 video/mpeg
+</pre>
+
+<p><strong>Debian Testing:</strong></p>
+
+<pre>
+ count MIME type
+ ----- -----------------------
+ 21 text/plain
+ 21 audio/x-mp3
+ 21 audio/mpeg
+ 20 application/ogg
+ 19 audio/x-wav
+ 18 image/tiff
+ 18 image/jpeg
+ 18 audio/x-flac
+ 17 image/png
+ 17 image/gif
+ 17 audio/x-mpegurl
+ 16 audio/x-scpls
+ 15 image/bmp
+ 15 audio/x-mpeg
+ 14 application/x-ogg
+ 13 video/x-ms-asf
+ 13 audio/x-musepack
+ 12 video/x-ms-wmv
+ 12 video/x-msvideo
+ 12 video/quicktime
+</pre>
+
+<p><strong>Debian Unstable:</strong></p>
+
+<pre>
+ count MIME type
+ ----- -----------------------
+ 23 audio/mpeg
+ 22 text/plain
+ 21 audio/x-mp3
+ 21 application/ogg
+ 20 audio/x-wav
+ 19 image/tiff
+ 19 audio/x-flac
+ 18 image/jpeg
+ 17 image/png
+ 17 image/gif
+ 17 audio/x-mpegurl
+ 16 image/bmp
+ 16 audio/x-scpls
+ 16 audio/x-mpeg
+ 14 audio/x-musepack
+ 14 application/x-ogg
+ 13 video/x-ms-asf
+ 13 video/mpeg
+ 13 audio/mp4
+ 12 video/x-ms-wmv
+</pre>
+
+<p>I am told that PackageKit can provide an API to access the kind of
+information mentioned in DEP-11. I have not yet had time to look at
+it, but hope the PackageKit people in Debian are on top of these
+issues.</p>
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+
+ <div class="tags">Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.</div>
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