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The Debian MIME support sub-policy

Abstract

This manual describes the policy requirements for the MIME support system used in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. This document is part of the policy package for Debian. The policy package itself is maintained by a group of maintainers that have no editorial powers. At the moment, the list of maintainers is:

1. Julian Gilbey J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk

2. Manoj Srivastava srivasta@debian.org

Copyright Notice

Copyright ©1999 .

This manual is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

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Contents

• 1 About this document
• 2 MIME support mechanism
• 2.1 Background
• 2.2 MIME support implementation

The Debian MIME support sub-policy