Apple pages file type should be added to MIME types

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

Thank you for your bug report. Could you add an example of a such file to the bug?
How do you want to open the files? If it's from e.g nautilus then mime-support isn't the right place where the mimetype needs to be defined but rather shared-mime-info

I created a bug report in shared-mime-info's issues tracker here: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/-/issues/136

As requested, here is an example of an Apple Pages document, taken from an online templates website.

A fix was released upstream in shared-mime-info 2.2 (2022-03-27). Sadly, this didn't make it to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

The 2.2 version is in kinetic, it would be possible do include the change in a stable update if it was determined to be important enough which is unclear at this point since that report was the only report of the issue so far