Re: mhbuild: extraneous information in message

[Laura Creighton]

In a message of Wed, 12 May 2021 10:12:06 +0100, Ralph Corderoy writes:
>Hi Laura,
>
>> Manjaro is based on Arch linux,
>
>Yep.
>
>> and Arch linux is based on debian.
>
>No, I don't think so.  I run Arch Linux here and one key reason is it
>packages upstream releases directly without much tinkering or delay by
>doing a ‘rolling’ release, unlike Debian which has a comprehensive set
>of patches and a periodic release schedule.
>
>> My debian distro looks for such things in /etc/mailcap.  I'd look
>> there first.
>
>However, I have one of those, owned by the mailcap package.  :-)

I think I could have phrased that better.  What I meant by 'based on
debian' was historically, and to do with filesystem layouts and the
like -- as opposed to 'based on SuSe or based on RedHat', not
dependent on the technical and political machinations of the debian
community.  Also .deb files just install on Arch, no? (been a long
time since I had one.)

At any rate whenever I have the sort of problem that Steven mentioned, I just
add a line to /etc/mailcap telling it how I want to process the new thing I
am being sent.  But other distros keep this stuff other places.

Laura