Future of shared-mime-info in Fedora

[Miro Hrončok]

Hello Fedorans, Bastien,

I have noticed that the shared-mime-info package was orphaned couple days ago.

Bastien, AFAIK you were the primary point of contact in Fedora and I also see 
you are the RHEL 8 default bugzilla assignee.

Considering the following commit:

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/-/commit/6f4947b01

I've disregarded the idea the the package was orphaned by accident.

I also see that GNOME mime types have been moved away from the package (on 
rawhide only):

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/shared-mime-info/c/da05922d10
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gnome-desktop3/c/9909d22b

I always considered shared-mime-info an important package, however I don't see 
it in comps. Maybe it is no longer that important?

A repoquery reveals ~50 packages that require it including PackageKit, Thunar 
(Xfce), some NetworkManager packages, kdelibs (KDE)...

A recursive repoquery yields ~ 6650 packages.

I've taken the orphaned package for now to avoid any disruption (and a totally 
unreadable orphans report), but I don't really understand the Fedora package, it 
has a manually created source without any comment explaining where is this from:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/shared-mime-info/blob/master/f/mimeapp...

Bastien, could you please give me a hint about this file? Thanks

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The package technically has 8 co-maintainers and a sig, but I don't put much 
hopes into the crowd there considering they haven't touched the package in years.

Are there any interested Fedora packages that understand mime info better than I do

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PS There is an interesting file-ownership problem reported in Bugzilla 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1486468 - I plan to discuss this 
later on the packaging mailing list as well.

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