Does not recognize .shp (ESRI Shapefile) files

[Oliver Gerlich]

Binary package hint: shared-mime-info

In Nautilus, files with .shp suffix are not recognized - they have type "unknown (application/octet-stream)". The "file" command detects these files correctly as Shapefiles (though it doesn't display a useful mime type):
$ file onb_grenzen.shp
onb_grenzen.shp: ESRI Shapefile version 1000 length 11050154 type Polygon
$ file -i onb_grenzen.shp
onb_grenzen.shp: application/octet-stream

It would be nice if Nautilus would display a useful file type description rather than "unknown". The example file can be downloaded at http://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/media/archive/11358.zip ("Geographische Grenzen aller ONB, Stand: 11.05.2009 (zip, 10247 kb)").

I assume Nautilus uses shared-mime-info for its file detection; sorry if the bug is reported against the wrong package.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: shared-mime-info 0.60-1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: shared-mime-info
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-server i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software