Conflicting mime types

[David Faure]

On Tuesday 05 March 2013 13:28:15 Thomas Kluyver wrote:
> In the file structure, the priority attribute is a property of the magic
> matching rule, not of the mimetype. The description in the spec, on the
> other hand, seems to be relevant to the Mimetype overall: "Low numbers
> should be used for more generic types (such as 'gzip compressed data') and
> higher values for specific subtypes (such as a word processor format that
> happens to use gzip to compress the file)."
> 
> So does it make sense to use this even when we're not using the magic
> matching rules?

No, the "glob weight" is what should be used to choose between two globs.

But I guess the question is "what if the weights are the same?". Well, same 
globs, same weight, and same magic (or no magic), is a complete conflict, I 
don't think there's anything sensible to do other than fixing the mimetype xml 
(which has been done for this case already).

Maybe Jerome meant addin a new package-level priority value, so that 
freedesktop.org.xml always has priority over weird 3rd-party mimetype 
definitions. But I'm not sure we really want that.

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