Mime Spec updates: Matching order and generic icons

[Bastien Nocera]

On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 19:40 +0100, David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 03 March 2008, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 16:05 +0100, David Faure wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > This is not good! It means that any mimetype xml file I generate now with an icon field,
> > > will break for users who have not upgraded to the future version of update-mime-database
> > > which will include support for the icon field!
> > > 
> > > 1.20         (talex    05-Mar-03):              g_set_error(error, MIME_ERROR, 0,
> > > 1.20         (talex    05-Mar-03):                      _("Unknown freedesktop.org field '%s'"),
> > > 1.20         (talex    05-Mar-03):                      field->name);
> > > 
> > > I suggest making it a warning at least -- or removing that else clause completely,
> > > to allow future changes in the mime spec.
> > 
> > That sounds fair. Feel free to commit a patch to do that
> 
> I don't think I have write access (or I forgot the password if I ever had).
> The patch is ultra-simple though: remove those three lines and the "else" that precedes them.

Committed, you even get credit for it.

> > or let me know when you want this fixed by
> 
> 5 years ago, preferrably :-)

I'm afraid that won't be possible.

> I'm stuck now, I can't even enable the code that writes out an icon element, it would break stuff for everyone :(
> I guess I'll make it dependent on a shared-mime-info version check, but for this I need a new shared-mime-info release.

So, do I need to do a release now?

> > (and file a bug). 
> 
> This mail not enough? :)

I prefer bug trackers, too many "TODO" emails everywhere.