Wording of shared mime spec
Matthias Clasen
mclasen at redhat.com
Mon Aug 18 13:44:58 PDT 2008
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 20:08 +0200, David Faure wrote:
> The spec currently says, about glob matching:
>
> "If several patterns match then the longest pattern SHOULD be used."
>
> With the recent addition of glob weights, this sentence is missing "... of the same weight", isn't it?
>
> This way *.tar.bz2 is preferred over *.bz2 (as was the intent of this sentence),
> but still weights are obeyed, so that README.* loses to *.pdf
>
You are right, that should be clarified.
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