".ardour" project files are not recognized by GNOME (no file type association)

Tested on a Gutsy 32-bit system with all updates.

This is a bug in ardour (if at all). It should provide a file to register it's own filetypes in the mime database.

http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/shared-mime-info-spec-latest.html#id2447399

Can you tell them about this bug? My own technical know how is too limited to tell them exactly what the problem is (e.g. I do not know what a mime database is).

Here is a debdiff to fix this issue in Karmic's Ardour version. Should be easily backported to other Ardour versions as well. Infact I'm willing to do that leg work if someone describes the formal process to me (do I need to upload a debdiff for each version?).

Thank you for your work there, the change doesn't seem ubuntu specific could you open a bug about that with the change on the debian bts too?

Sebastien, the debian bug tracker doesn't want to load in my browser, it just keeps timing out - is that project even active anymore I thought every debian user switched to Ubuntu years ago... (sorry for the sarcasm). I'll try to get around to filling a bug there eventually, but frankly I develop for Ubuntu and I haven't yet bothered to learn the administrative process for Debian. Can I suggest an upgrade to Launchpad that would allow bugs to be either marked as Ubuntu-specific or non-Ubuntu-specific so that duplicate bugs don't need to be filed in debian, they can just check the non-Ubuntu-specific side of things on Launchpad?

Does this patch's upload to Karmic depend on me filing a duplicate bug in debian's system and attaching a duplicate patch there?

I tried to build the package in my karmic pbuilder and it failed to build:
[...]
touch debian/stamp-patched
/usr/bin/make -f debian/rules update-config
make[1]: Entering directory `/tmp/buildd/ardour-2.8'
if test -e /usr/share/misc/config.guess ; then \
  for i in ./tools/config.guess ./libs/sigc++2/config.guess ./libs/libsndfile/config.guess ./libs/glibmm2/scripts/config.guess ; do \
   if ! test -e $i.cdbs-orig ; then \
    mv $i $i.cdbs-orig ; \
    cp --remove-destination /usr/share/misc/config.guess $i ; \
   fi ; \
  done ; \
 fi
if test -e /usr/share/misc/config.sub ; then \
  for i in ./libs/sigc++2/config.sub ./libs/libsndfile/config.sub ./libs/glibmm2/scripts/config.sub ; do \
   if ! test -e $i.cdbs-orig ; then \
    mv $i $i.cdbs-orig ; \
    cp --remove-destination /usr/share/misc/config.sub $i ; \
   fi ; \
  done ; \
 fi
make[1]: Leaving directory `/tmp/buildd/ardour-2.8'
if test -e /usr/share/misc/config.guess ; then \
  for i in ./tools/config.guess ./libs/sigc++2/config.guess ./libs/libsndfile/config.guess ./libs/glibmm2/scripts/config.guess ; do \
   if ! test -e $i.cdbs-orig ; then \
    mv $i $i.cdbs-orig ; \
    cp --remove-destination /usr/share/misc/config.guess $i ; \
   fi ; \
  done ; \
 fi
if test -e /usr/share/misc/config.sub ; then \
  for i in ./libs/sigc++2/config.sub ./libs/libsndfile/config.sub ./libs/glibmm2/scripts/config.sub ; do \
   if ! test -e $i.cdbs-orig ; then \
    mv $i $i.cdbs-orig ; \
    cp --remove-destination /usr/share/misc/config.sub $i ; \
   fi ; \
  done ; \
 fi
touch debian/stamp-autotools-files
chmod a+x /tmp/buildd/ardour-2.8/./configure
chmod: cannot access `/tmp/buildd/ardour-2.8/./configure': No such file or directory
make: *** [config.status] Error 1
dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2

Updated debdiff removes the
include /usr/share/cdbs/1/class/gnome.mk
line that was killing the build, and should no longer be needed in Karmic anyway.

This patch hasn't been fully tested yet due to Bug #412634

Attached is a working patched Ardour 2.8.2-0ubuntu1.diff.gz
This fixes both this bug and Bug #412634 (the upstream version compiles with gcc4.4)

This bug was fixed in the package ardour - 1:2.8.2-0ubuntu1

---------------
ardour (1:2.8.2-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  [ Eric Hedekar ]
  * Added mimetype handles for .ardour files (LP: #148585)
  * Upgraded to new upstream version (LP: #412634)

  [ Luke Yelavich ]
  * Added mimetype handles to i686 and altivec optimized builds as well

 -- Eric Hedekar <email address hidden> Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:34:13 -0700