Comment 26 for bug 873470
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(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > Sounds like this is a problem of file-roller claiming to support zip while it
> > cannot?
>
> Nothing to do with that. OpenOffice documents are zip files with a bunch of
> files in it. We advertise that fact in shared-mime-info.
>
> file-roller is launched because we don't have LibreOffice or OpenOffice
> installed so the file manager looks for the next best handler: the zip file
> handler.
Thanks for the clarification, given the bug description was not clear about it.
> > What is the relation with shared-mime-info, and why should it be a bug in it?
>
> So I think we should just remove the sub-class of zip in this case, but it
> would probably break mime detection.
This sounds like an (ugly) ad-hoc solution just to solve this specific case.
I'm pretty sure there could be (now or in the future) more cases when you want to handle a mime type but not one or more specific subclasses of it, so my suggestion would be discussing it in the xdg ml for a better solution (most probably at application level, out of shared-mime-info).