Invalid shared-mime XML file installed

I'm pretty sure this was fixed in the miro-0.9.8.1-0ubuntu4 upload. Can you check what version of the miro package you have installed? Either -0ubuntu4 or -0ubuntu5 should already have this fixed.

I have latest gutsy x86-64 package
I'll report exact version number tonight once I'm back at home

It seems to be fixed. However .miro files and .democracy files are still not associated with miro/democracy.

Translated error message: The contents is a text file, but the extension suggests a democracy file. This is a security problem.

I forgot. Steps to reproduce:

 - You install Gutsy and make sure its up to date (9/10/2007)
 - you install Miro.
 - You go to the channel guide (which is just a gecko component)
 - You click on the 'add channel' button for any channel.
 - It now tries to open the link in my default internet browser (epiphany)
 - But epiphany, like miro has no no clue what to do with it.
 - So it asks me if I want to open or download it. I choose open.
 - It does nothing.
 - So i manually double-click the file. (epiphany does not delete files it downloads like firefox)
 - Now I get a security error: contents is text-file, but extension suggests .democracy file.

Perhaps I'm wrong assuming this bug is related, but I think it is. Something is wrong with the file-type/mime-type association for .miro and .democracy files.

My fault, checking installed version, the culprit was miro-data ... 0.9.9.1-1ubuntupcf
So, it is not the official Ubuntu package but a newer one from another repository
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/linux/repositories/ubuntu/feisty/
It is the official Miro repo.
Has this been reported/fixed upstream ??
It is fixed in Gutsy version.
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Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen 's problem is different.
Those XML files are just here to declare to nautilus how to detect that a file is of this particular mime-type. (here, by file extension)

Mime type to application mapping is done in /usr/share/applications/miro.desktop , MimeType entry :
MimeType=application/x-miro;application/x-democracy;application/x-bittorrent;video/dv;video/mpeg;video/x-mpeg;video/msvideo;video/quicktime;video/x-anim;video/x-avi;video/x-ms-asf;video/x-ms-wmv;video/x-msvideo;video/x-nsv;video/x-flc;video/x-fli;application/ogg;application/x-ogg;application/x-matroska;audio/x-mp3;audio/x-mpeg;audio/mpeg;audio/x-wav;audio/x-mpegurl;audio/x-scpls;audio/x-m4a;audio/x-ms-asf;audio/x-ms-asx;audio/x-ms-wax;application/vnd.rn-realmedia;audio/x-real-audio;audio/x-pn-realaudio;misc/ultravox;audio/vnd.rn-realaudio;audio/x-pn-aiff;audio/x-pn-au;audio/x-pn-wav;audio/x-pn-windows-acm;image/vnd.rn-realpix;video/vnd.rn-realvideo;audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin;

So, I'm closing this bug as invalid

My fault, checking installed version, the culprit was miro-data ... 0.9.9.1-1ubuntupcf
So, it is not the official Ubuntu package but a newer one from another repository
http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/linux/repositories/ubuntu/feisty/
It is the official Miro repo.
Has this been reported/fixed upstream ??
It is fixed in Gutsy version.
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Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen 's problem is different.
Those XML files are just here to declare to nautilus how to detect that a file is of this particular mime-type. (here, by file extension)

Mime type to application mapping is done in /usr/share/applications/miro.desktop , MimeType entry :
MimeType=application/x-miro;application/x-democracy;application/x-bittorrent;video/dv;video/mpeg;video/x-mpeg;video/msvideo;video/quicktime;video/x-anim;video/x-avi;video/x-ms-asf;video/x-ms-wmv;video/x-msvideo;video/x-nsv;video/x-flc;video/x-fli;application/ogg;application/x-ogg;application/x-matroska;audio/x-mp3;audio/x-mpeg;audio/mpeg;audio/x-wav;audio/x-mpegurl;audio/x-scpls;audio/x-m4a;audio/x-ms-asf;audio/x-ms-asx;audio/x-ms-wax;application/vnd.rn-realmedia;audio/x-real-audio;audio/x-pn-realaudio;misc/ultravox;audio/vnd.rn-realaudio;audio/x-pn-aiff;audio/x-pn-au;audio/x-pn-wav;audio/x-pn-windows-acm;image/vnd.rn-realpix;video/vnd.rn-realvideo;audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin;

So, I'm closing this bug as invalid

I report it upstream

The mime-types are there in the .desktop file, so why is it not working?
Is adding channels within miro, or by using a webbrowser working for anybody?

Nautilus claims .democracy files are text-files not miro's files?

Wait: it claims they are democracy files _until_ i click them. (not execute them)
When executing, they claim that the content and the file-extension do not match.
The content is said to be text/plain.

If I run the following command in a terminal:
file subscribe.democracy

I get:
subscribe.democracy:xml

So, it seems nautilus is 'detecting' it as a text-file because its an xml file.
How to override this?

Perhaps the problem is that in the mime description, nothing says that those 2 mime types inherits text/xml (which itself inherits text/plain)

In clear, both mime types lack :
<sub-class-of type="application/xml"/>

<mime-info xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/shared-mime-info">

<!-- New style subscription files. -->
   <mime-type type="application/x-miro">
     <sub-class-of type="application/xml"/>
     <comment>Miro Subscription File</comment>
     <glob pattern="*.miro"/>
   </mime-type>

<!-- Old style subscription files. -->
   <mime-type type="application/x-democracy">
     <sub-class-of type="application/xml"/>
     <comment>Democracy Subscription File</comment>
     <glob pattern="*.democracy"/>
   </mime-type>

</mime-info>

Yes, that makes it work within nautilus!
Thank you.

Unfortunately, somehow add-channel within miro is still not working.
It spawns the link in the chosen browser (epiphany in my case), afterwhich i have to manually double-click it.
But at least that part works now. I'll go look at how miro (which uses xul and gecko) figures out the mime-type.

Ralph, I think you'll have to open a new bug for the problem I solved (missing sub-class-of)
so that there is only one issue per bug

There is already a related bug #150674 which is about add-channel not working. Unfortunately that problem seems to be unrelated.

I think this particular fix belongs here, because it is _still_ about an invalid shared-mime XML file.
I also hope that bugs get fixed. Upstream works, but I doubt they will do an UVF-exception for it.

True that the missing sub-class-of is a problem. Reopening the bug

miro (1.0-1ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * Merge from Debian unstable (LP: #162310). Remaining Ubuntu changes:
    + debian/control:
      - libxul-dev -> firefox-dev
      - DebianMaintainerField
      - Provide real transitional democracyplayer package
    + debian/pyversions
      - 2.4 -> 2.5
    + debian/rules
      - Use pyversions rather than hardcoding 2.4
  * New upstream version fixes invalid mime file (LP: #150851, LP: #150674)
  * debian/rules:
    + Remove remaining hardcoded python version numbers;
      use DEB_PYTHON_COMPILE_VERSION everywhere.
  * debian/control:
    + Break the long depends lists into one depends per line for readability
    + Add libxine1-x dependency (LP: #159338)
    + Bump standards version; no changes needed.
  * debian/watch:
    + Add a shiny new watch file.
  * debian/patches/50_honour_xine_driver.patch
    + Make Miro honour the --xine-driver command line option (Debian: #453406)
  * debian/patches/60_xine_extractor_path.patch
  * debian/miro.install
    + Install xine_extractor into /usr/lib/miro rather than /usr/libexec,
      and make Miro look for it there (Debian: #454603, #451980, #452708,
      #452486)

miro (1.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (Closes: #449131, #451207).
    + Fixed malformed miro.xml file (Closes: #445871, #443510).
    + Drop several patches which were applied upstream.
  * Add missing libxv-dev build-dependency (Closes: #442832, #443006, #443045).
  * Miro shipped with a menu file since the beginning (Closes: #443211).
    It's currently in the 'Applications/Network/Web News' category.
  * Fix small typo in German translation (Closes: #451333).
  * Cannot reproduce the following bugs with this release. Please
    reopen if you still experience problems:
    + Miro crashes on play (Closes: #443266).
    + Used to work; now segfaults on startup (Closes: #444484).
      Please try removing the ~/.miro directory if the problem persists.
    + Segfault on startup (quicktime related?) (Closes: #444051).
    + Cannot install Miro (Closes: #443045). Unlikely to be a real bug,
      probably stems from mixing packages from stable/unstable.
  * New 'Recommends: libxine1-ffmpeg'.

miro (0.9.9.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (Closes: #433752).
     + Democracy Player was renamed to Miro upstream, so we now
       use Provides/Conflicts/Replaces to transition existing installs.
     + Update the package description (and improve it a bit).
     + Now supports proxy settings (Closes: #426992). Miro uses the
       default GNOME proxy, which you can set/enable using gconf-editor.
  * Update debian/copyright.
  * Several improvements inspired by the Ubuntu version of the package:
    + Remove unneeded RPATH from MozillaBrowser.so (using chrpath).
    + debian/menu: Move package into 'Applications/Network/Web News'.
    + Drop shebang from feedparser.py, not needed (and silences lintian).
    + Only suggest python-psyco on [i386 hurd-i386 netbsd-i386 kfreebsd-i386].
  * miro.desktop improvements:
    + Drop 'Encoding=UTF-8', no longer necessary (lintian).
    + Change categories to 'AudioVideo;FileTransfer;News;P2P;TV;Player;'.
  * Cannot reproduc...