[Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Use MIME types instead of magic strings for RPMTAG_FILECLASS (#1099)

Panu Matilainen notifications at github.com
Thu Mar 5 12:36:39 UTC 2020


This isn't "internal" classification either, because its very public in the headers. Hence the request for discussion.

The thing is, the existing RPMTAG_CLASSDICT content is intolerable goo. So in my view, we have two options:
1) stop creating that fileclass data, andd new tags and stuff for MIME instead
2) hijack it for MIME use

The problem with 1) is that we need to carry a lot of baggage for a little-used feature, the problem with 2) is that there *are* users (rpmlint at least) and if we just hijack it, you don't really know what data to expect there.

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