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Bug 567910 - app-misc/mime-types: missing RFC2361 types - audio/vnd.wave and video/vnd.avi
Summary: app-misc/mime-types: missing RFC2361 types - audio/vnd.wave and video/vnd.avi
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: Normal trivial (vote)
Assignee: Eray Aslan
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Reported: 2015-12-10 00:31 UTC by Luke Shumaker
Modified: 2022-01-26 22:58 UTC (History)
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Description Luke Shumaker 2015-12-10 00:31:51 UTC 
RFC 2361 standardized the MIME types for wave audio files and AVI video files as audio/vnd.wave and video/vnd.avi respectively.  However, in Gentoo /etc/mime.types, the .wav and .avi file extensions are only associated with audio/x-wav and video/x-msvideo respectively.
Comment 1 Eray Aslan gentoo-dev 2022-01-05 05:57:55 UTC 
not recognized by iana and (hence?) not in our upstream. I think the sensible policy here is to go with iana and not add mime-types individually.

closing.
Comment 2 Luke Shumaker 2022-01-26 22:58:13 UTC 
That'd be fair enough, except for that the audio/x-wav and video/x-msvideo types are not present in the IANA registry either, and yet are present in the Gentoo /etc/mime.types.

Anyway, I've emailed media-types@iana.org about why the RFC 2361 types are not in the registry.