Comment 27 for bug 873470

(In reply to comment #3)
> > 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).

What other mime-types have that problem? I can't see any, so it's not that bad a solution.