[pkg-lighttpd] Bug#644227: lighttpd create-mime.assign.pl ignores ~/.mime.types

[Stefan Bühler]

On 10/04/2011 09:29 AM, Magnus Olsson wrote:
> Lighttpd gets its MIME configuration from output of
> /usr/share/lighttpd/create-mime.assign.pl. This script only reads MIME
> types from /etc/mime.types. However, the mime-support package also keeps
> per-user MIME-types in ~/.mime.types. These are ignored in the Lighttpd
> configuration, even if kept in www-data home-dir. The only way to add
> new per-user MIME types that are also picked up by Lighttpd is through
> /etc/mime.types, which is not recommended.

Files in /etc are there to be changed. To avoid update conflicts, the 
mime-support package should be fixed to either allow additional config 
files in /etc (like /etc/mime.types.d) or to put the current data in 
/usr/share, and only have custom types in /etc/mime.types.

> I propose that create-mime.assign.pl also reads .mime.types in the
> home-dir of lighttpd user (lighttpd.conf::server.username)

Reading from any user home dir is certainly not an option.