--- /dev/null
+diff -urN rpm-4.4.9/lib/rpmfc.c rpm-4.4.9.new/lib/rpmfc.c
+--- rpm-4.4.9/lib/rpmfc.c 2008-05-06 16:27:09.000000000 +0200
++++ rpm-4.4.9.new/lib/rpmfc.c 2008-05-06 16:33:48.000000000 +0200
+@@ -531,6 +531,8 @@
+ { "troff or preprocessor input", RPMFC_MANPAGE|RPMFC_INCLUDE },
+ { "GNU Info", RPMFC_MANPAGE|RPMFC_INCLUDE },
+
++ { "Desktop E", RPMFC_DESKTOP_FILE|RPMFC_INCLUDE },
++
+ { "perl script text", RPMFC_PERL|RPMFC_INCLUDE },
+ { "Perl5 module source text", RPMFC_PERL|RPMFC_MODULE|RPMFC_INCLUDE },
+
+@@ -872,6 +874,10 @@
+ xx = rpmfcHelper(fc, 'P', "java", fc->noautoprov, fc->noautoprov_c);
+ if (fc->findreq)
+ xx = rpmfcHelper(fc, 'R', "java", fc->noautoreq, fc->noautoreq_c);
++ } else
++ if (fc->fcolor->vals[fc->ix] & RPMFC_DESKTOP_FILE) {
++ if (fc->findprov)
++ xx = rpmfcHelper(fc, 'P', "mimetype", fc->noautoprov, fc->noautoprov_c);
+ }
+
+ return 0;
+@@ -984,7 +990,7 @@
+ /*@unchecked@*/
+ static struct rpmfcApplyTbl_s rpmfcApplyTable[] = {
+ { rpmfcELF, RPMFC_ELF },
+- { rpmfcSCRIPT, (RPMFC_SCRIPT|RPMFC_PERL|RPMFC_PYTHON|RPMFC_LIBTOOL|RPMFC_PKGCONFIG|RPMFC_BOURNE|RPMFC_JAVA|RPMFC_PHP) },
++ { rpmfcSCRIPT, (RPMFC_SCRIPT|RPMFC_PERL|RPMFC_PYTHON|RPMFC_LIBTOOL|RPMFC_PKGCONFIG|RPMFC_BOURNE|RPMFC_JAVA|RPMFC_PHP|RPMFC_DESKTOP_FILE) },
+ { rpmfcMONO, RPMFC_MONO },
+ { NULL, 0 }
+ };
+@@ -1350,6 +1356,10 @@
+ else if (_suffix(s, ".php"))
+ ftype = "PHP script text";
+
++ /* XXX all files with extension ".desktop" are desktop files for now. */
++ else if (_suffix(s, ".desktop"))
++ ftype = "Desktop Entry";
++
+ /* XXX skip all files in /dev/ which are (or should be) %dev dummies. */
+ else if (slen >= fc->brlen+sizeof("/dev/") && !strncmp(s+fc->brlen, "/dev/", sizeof("/dev/")-1))
+ ftype = "";
+diff -urN rpm-4.4.9/lib/rpmfc.h rpm-4.4.9.new/lib/rpmfc.h
+--- rpm-4.4.9/lib/rpmfc.h 2008-05-06 16:27:09.000000000 +0200
++++ rpm-4.4.9.new/lib/rpmfc.h 2008-05-06 16:28:44.000000000 +0200
+@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@
+ RPMFC_FONT = (1 << 21),
+ RPMFC_IMAGE = (1 << 22),
+ RPMFC_MANPAGE = (1 << 23),
++ RPMFC_DESKTOP_FILE = (1 << 11),
+
+ RPMFC_PERL = (1 << 24),
+ RPMFC_JAVA = (1 << 25),
+diff -urN rpm-4.4.9/macros.in rpm-4.4.9.new/macros.in
+--- rpm-4.4.9/macros.in 2008-05-06 16:27:09.000000000 +0200
++++ rpm-4.4.9.new/macros.in 2008-05-06 16:24:15.000000000 +0200
+@@ -1461,6 +1461,16 @@
+ #%__executable_requires %{_usrlibrpm}/executabledeps.sh --requires
+ #%__scriptlet_requires /bin/bash --rpm-requires
+
++#------------------------------------------------------------------------
++# mimetype(...) configuration.
++#
++# Path to script to autogenerate mimetype(foo) provides, based on MimeType
++# key from desktop files.
++#
++# Note: Used if _use_internal_dependency_generator is non-zero. The
++# helper is also used by %{_uselibrpm}/rpmdeps --provides
++%__mimetype_provides %{_usrlibrpm}/mimetypedeps.sh --provides
++
+ # PLD rpm macros
+ %_enable_debug_packages 1
+