Most (or all) of the mimetype definitions in desktop/openoffice.xml seem to have already been added upstream to shared-mime-info. In some cases, the mimetype is changed when submitted upstream. For example, *.fodt is listed as application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text in openoffice.xml, whereas shared-mime-info's freedesktop.xml lists it as application/vnd.oasis.document.text-flat-xml. This in turn can cause problems when running mimetype unit tests for KDE, and may also lead to conflicting mimetypes. If it is not possible to remove openoffice.xml altogether, it would be nice to at least remove the mime definitions that are present in shared-mime-info.
For more information about what's already present in shared-mime-info: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/shared-mime-info/tree/freedesktop.org.xml.in search for "fodt" for instance.
[This is an automated message.] This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases. Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1 more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html
Dear bug submitter! Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs. To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem. Yours! Florian
I confirm that *.fodt is associated with application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text-flat-xml and *.fodp is associated with application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation-flat-xml in /usr/share/mime/packages/libreoffice3.6.xml, coming from libreoffice3.6-suse-menus-3.6.1-1.noarch.rpm That's still "duplicate definitions" with shared-mime-info, but at least they match.