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<h1>
The Debian MIME support sub-policy
<br>Chapter 2 - MIME support mechanism
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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.
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<h2><a name="s2.1"></a>2.1 Background</h2>

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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).
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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.
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<h2><a name="s2.2"></a>2.2 MIME support implementation</h2>

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The <code>mime-support</code> package provides the <code>update-mime</code>
program which allows packages to register programs that can show, compose, edit
or print MIME types.
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Packages containing such programs must register them with
<code>update-mime</code> as documented in <code>update-mime(8)</code>.  They
should <em>not</em> depend on, recommend, or suggest <code>mime-support</code>.
Instead, they should just put something like the following in the
<samp>postinst</samp> and <samp>postrm</samp> scripts:
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       if [ -x /usr/sbin/update-mime ]; then
           update-mime
       fi
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The Debian MIME support sub-policy
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version 3.8.2.0ubuntu1, 2009-06-19<br>
<br>
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <code><a href="mailto:jdassen@debian.org">jdassen@debian.org</a></code><br>
The Debian Policy mailing List <code><a href="mailto:debian-policy@lists.debian.org">debian-policy@lists.debian.org</a></code><br>
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