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[media-types] Mime type for patch files?

Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Wed, 31 October 2018 05:23 UTC

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Subject: [media-types] Mime type for patch files?
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Hi,

I am new to this list, and hope I do not misunderstand its purpose.  I
would like to suggest a "new" mime type, and hope for your input on the
topic.

While testing a archive system on a subset of mails from the Debian
archive, I noticed the following unregistered MIME types on the top ten
list of MIME types used in the emails: text/x-patch and text/x-diff.

The fact that emailing patches as attachments is so popular make me
suspect it is time to register a MIME type for it.  But what type should
the suggested?  One of the above, or a new one without the x- prefix?

-- 
Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen

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