[Bug 1878617] Re: Apple pages file type should be added to MIME types

[Charles Plessy]

Hello,

You can add `application/vnd.apple.pages pages` in `/etc/mime.types` on
your system, and I will do it in a future update of the `mime-support`
package, but it will not effect the output of the `file` command, which
uses a different database.

You can open a bug on the `file` package to request it, but please have
a look if you can at <https://github.com/file/file/tree/master/magic>
before: as you will see, unless you can provide a “magic number” for
that format (a proprietary format from a proprietary software, if I may
comment), it may not be possible to detect it.

You can also have a look at the `shared-mime-info` package for another
way to associate the `.pages` file suffix to the
`application/vnd.apple.pages` media type.

Have a nice day,

Charles Plessy

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Title:
  Apple pages file type should be added to MIME types

Status in mime-support package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  LibreOffice can open .pages files (from Apple pages). However, the
  mime type for these files is incorrectly just application/zip:

  $ file --mime-type example.pages
  example.pages: application/zip

  Instead, it should be application/vnd.apple.pages .

  This would allow the user to associate LibreOffice Writer with these
  types of files, and use it to open this file. (LibreOffice Writer can
  open .pages files)

  Apple Keynote files should have this MIME type:
  application/vnd.apple.keynote

  Apple Numbers files should have this MIME type:
  application/vnd.apple.numbers

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
  Package: mime-support 3.64ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-29.33-generic 5.4.30
  Uname: Linux 5.4.0-29-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27
  Architecture: amd64
  CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
  CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
  Date: Thu May 14 14:46:40 2020
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-11-11 (550 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
  PackageArchitecture: all
  SourcePackage: mime-support
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-04-18 (25 days ago)

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