Closed rhdunn closed 11 years ago
The current mimetype database behaviour is causing issues for the 0.7 release when building through debuild (the languages tests are failing to load the mimetype database for the language localization tests).
Deferring this, as the languages tests problem was the XDG_DATA_DIRS variable not being set for that test.
Closing not implemented: may reconsider this in the future.
At the moment, mimetype loading is done during the static initialization phase. This causes several problems:
Therefore, the mimetype information should be lazily loaded the first time it is actually needed.